In this article, we are going to see about special functions in Scipy. The special functions in scipy are used to perform mathematical operations on the given data. Special function in scipy is a module available in scipy package. Inside this special function, the available methods are:
- cbrt – which gives the cube root of the given number
- comb – gives the combinations of the elements
- exp10 – gives the number with raise to 10 power of the given number
- exprel – gives the relative error exponential, (exp(x) – 1)/x.
- gamma – returns the value by calculating the z*gamma(z) = gamma(z+1) and gamma(n+1) = n!, for a natural number ‘n’.
- lambertw – computes the W(z) * exp(W(z)) for any complex number z, where W is the lambertw function
- logsumexp – gives the log of the sum of exponential of given number
- perm – gives the permutations of the elements
Let’s understand about these functions in detail.
1. cbrt()
This is used to return the cube root of the given number.
Syntax: cbrt(number)
Example: Program to find the cube root
Python3
from scipy.special import cbrt # cube root of 64 print(cbrt(64)) # cube root of 78 print(cbrt(78)) # cube root of 128 print(cbrt(128)) |
Output:
4.0 4.272658681697917 5.039684199579493
Example: Program to find cube root in the given array elements.
Python3
from scipy.special import cbrt # cube root of elements in an array arr = [64, 164, 564, 4, 640] arr = list(map(cbrt,arr)) print(arr) |
Output:
[4.0, 5.473703674798428, 8.26214922566535, 1.5874010519681994, 8.617738760127535]
2. comb()
It is known as combinations and returns the combination of a given value.
Syntax: scipy.special.comb(N, k)
Where, N is the input value and k is the number of repetitions.
Example 1:
Python3
# import combinations from scipy.special import comb # combinations of input 4 print(comb(4,1)) |
Output:
4.0
Example 2:
Python3
# import combinations module from scipy.special import comb # combinations of 4 print([comb(4,1),comb(4,2),comb(4,3), comb(4,4),comb(4,5)]) # combinations of 6 print([comb(6,1),comb(6,2),comb(6,3), comb(6,4),comb(6,5)]) |
Output:
[4.0, 6.0, 4.0, 1.0, 0.0] [6.0, 15.0, 20.0, 15.0, 6.0]
3. exp10()
This method gives the number with raise to 10 power of the given number.
Syntax: exp10(value)
Where value is the number which is given as the input.
Example: Program to find the power of 10
Python3
from scipy.special import exp10 # 10 to the power of 2 print(exp10(2)) |
Output:
100.0
Example: Program to find the powers of 10 for a range
Python3
from scipy.special import exp10 # exponent raise to power 10 # for a range for i in range(1,10): print(exp10(i) |
Output:
10.0 100.0 1000.0 10000.0 100000.0 1000000.0 10000000.0 100000000.0 1000000000.0
4. exprel()
It is known as the Relative Error Exponential Function. It returns the error value for a given variable. If x is near zero, then exp(x) is near 1.
Syntax: scipy.special.exprel(input_data)
Example 1:
Python3
# import exprel from scipy.special import exprel # calculate exprel of 0 print(exprel(0)) |
Output:
1.0
Example 2:
Python3
# import exprel from scipy.special import exprel # list of elements arr = [0,1,2,3,4,5] print(list(map(exprel,arr))) |
Output:
[1.0, 1.718281828459045, 3.194528049465325, 6.361845641062556, 13.399537508286059, 29.48263182051532]
5. gamma()
It is known as Gamma function. It is the generalized factorial since z*gamma(z) = gamma(z+1) and gamma(n+1) = n!, for a natural number ‘n’.
Syntax: scipy.special.gamma(input_data)
Where, input data is the input number.
Example 1:
Python3
# import gamma function from scipy.special import gamma print(gamma(56)) |
Output:
1.2696403353658278e+73
Example 2:
Python3
# import gamma function from scipy.special import gamma print([gamma(56), gamma(156), gamma(0), gamma(1), gamma(5)]) |
Output:
[1.2696403353658278e+73, 4.789142901463394e+273, inf, 1.0, 24.0]
6. lambertw()
It is also known as Lambert Function. It calculates the value of W(z) is such that z = W(z) * exp(W(z)) for any complex number z, where W is known as the Lambert Function
Syntax: scipy.special.lambertw(input_data)
Example:
Python3
# import lambert function from scipy.special import lambertw # calculate W value print([lambertw(1),lambertw(0),lambertw(56), lambertw(68),lambertw(10)]) |
Output:
[(0.5671432904097838+0j), 0j, (2.9451813101206707+0j), (3.0910098540499797+0j), (1.7455280027406994+0j)]
7. logsumexp()
It is known as Log Sum Exponential Function. It will return the log of the sum of the exponential of input elements.
Syntax: scipy.special.logsumexp(input_value)
where, input value is the input data.
Example 1:
Python
from scipy.special import logsumexp # logsum exp of numbers from # 1 to 10 a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] print(logsumexp(a)) |
Output:
10.45862974442671
Example 2:
Python3
from scipy.special import logsumexp # logsum exp of numbers from # 1 to 10 a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] # logsum exp of numbers from # 10 to 15 b = [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] print([logsumexp(a), logsumexp(b)]) |
Output:
[10.45862974442671, 15.456193316018123]
8. perm()
The perm stands for the permutation. It will return the permutation of the given numbers.
Syntax: scipy.special.perm(N,k)
where N is the input value and k is the no of repetitions.
Example:
Python3
# import permutations module from scipy.special import perm # permutations of 4 print([perm(4, 1), perm(4, 2), perm(4, 3), perm(4, 4), perm(4, 5)]) # permutations of 6 print([perm(6, 1), perm(6, 2), perm(6, 3), perm(6, 4), perm(6, 5)]) |
Output:
[4.0, 12.0, 24.0, 24.0, 0.0] [6.0, 30.0, 120.0, 360.0, 720.0]
