title: TypeError: ufunc 'true_divide' output (typecode 'd') could not be coerced to provided output parameter (typecode 'q')
body: <p>I am trying to apply Gower distance implementation to my data frame. While it was smoothly working with the same dataset with more features, this time it gives an error when I call the Gower distance function. I import the Gower's function from another .py code in the same directory. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import numpy as np
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  import pandas as pd
  
  import gower_function as gf
  
  # Importing the dataset with pandas
  dataset = pd.read_excel('input_partial.xlsx')
  X = dataset.iloc[:, 1:].values
  df = pd.DataFrame(X)
  #obtaining gower distances of instances
  Gower = gf.gower_distances(X)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and after executing this, I got the error below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "&lt;ipython-input-10-6a4c39600b0e&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  Gower = gf.gower_distances(X)
  
  File "C:\Users\...\Clustering\Section 24 - K-Means 
  Clustering\gower_function.py", line 184, in gower_distances
  X_num = np.divide(X_num ,max_of_numeric,out=np.zeros_like(X_num), 
  where=max_of_numeric!=0)
  
  TypeError: ufunc 'true_divide' output (typecode 'd') could not be coerced to 
  provided output parameter (typecode 'q') according to the casting rule 
  ''same_kind''
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did not understand how it can give this error on the same dataset with only fewer features (columns). Is there anyone who can recognize the reason?</p>