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NumPy Cookbook

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Overview of this book

Today's world of science and technology is all about speed and flexibility. When it comes to scientific computing, NumPy is on the top of the list. NumPy will give you both speed and high productivity. "NumPy Cookbook" will teach you all about NumPy, a leading scientific computing library. NumPy replaces a lot of the functionality of Matlab and Mathematica, but in contrast to those products, it is free and open source. "Numpy Cookbook" will teach you to write readable, efficient, and fast code that is as close to the language of Mathematics as much as possible with the cutting edge open source NumPy software library. You will learn about installing and using NumPy and related concepts. At the end of the book, we will explore related scientific computing projects. This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. You will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project through examples. "NumPy Cookbook" will help you to be productive with NumPy and write clean and fast code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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NumPy Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Chapter 3. Get to Grips with Commonly Used Functions

In this chapter, we will cover a number of commonly used functions:

  • sqrt, log, arange, astype, and sum

  • ceil, modf, where, ravel, and take

  • sort and outer

  • diff, sign, eig

  • histogram and polyfit

  • compress and randint

We will be discussing these functions through the following recipes:

  • Summing Fibonacci numbers

  • Finding prime factors

  • Finding palindromic numbers

  • The steady state vector determination

  • Discovering a power law

  • Trading periodically on dips

  • Simulating trading at random

  • Sieving integers with the Sieve of Eratosthenes

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