mygrad.arccos#

class mygrad.arccos(x: ArrayLike, out: Tensor | ndarray | None = None, *, where: Mask = True, dtype: DTypeLikeReals = None, constant: bool | None = None)#

Inverse cosine, element-wise.

This docstring was adapted from that of numpy.arccos [1]

Parameters:
xArrayLike

x-coordinate on the unit circle. For real arguments, the domain is [-1, 1].

outOptional[Union[Tensor, ndarray]]

A location into which the result is stored. If provided, it must have a shape that the inputs broadcast to. If not provided or None, a freshly-allocated tensor is returned.

constantOptional[bool]

If True, this tensor is treated as a constant, and thus does not facilitate back propagation (i.e. constant.grad will always return None).

Defaults to False for float-type data. Defaults to True for integer-type data.

Integer-type tensors must be constant.

whereMask

This condition is broadcast over the input. At locations where the condition is True, the out tensor will be set to the ufunc result. Elsewhere, the out tensor will retain its original value. Note that if an uninitialized out tensor is created via the default out=None, locations within it where the condition is False will remain uninitialized.

dtypeOptional[DTypeLikeReals]

The dtype of the resulting tensor.

Returns:
angleTensor

The angle of the ray intersecting the unit circle at the given x-coordinate in radians [0, pi].

See also

cos, arctan, arcsin

Notes

arccos is a multivalued function: for each x there are infinitely many numbers z such that cos(z) = x. The convention is to return the angle z whose real part lies in [0, pi].

For real-valued input data types, arccos always returns real output. For each value that cannot be expressed as a real number or infinity, it yields nan and sets the invalid floating point error flag.

For complex-valued input, arccos is a complex analytic function that has branch cuts [-inf, -1] and [1, inf] and is continuous from above on the former and from below on the latter.

The inverse cos is also known as acos or cos^-1.

References

M. Abramowitz and I.A. Stegun, “Handbook of Mathematical Functions”, 10th printing, 1964, pp. 79. http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/

Examples

We expect the arccos of 1 to be 0, and of -1 to be pi:

>>> import mygrad as mg
>>> mg.arccos([1, -1])
Tensor([ 0.        ,  3.14159265])
Attributes:
identity
signature

Methods

accumulate([axis, dtype, out, constant])

Not implemented

at(indices[, b, constant])

Not implemented

outer(b, *[, dtype, out])

Not Implemented

reduce([axis, dtype, out, keepdims, ...])

Not Implemented

reduceat(indices[, axis, dtype, out])

Not Implemented

resolve_dtypes(dtypes, *[, signature, ...])

Find the dtypes NumPy will use for the operation.
__init__(*args, **kwargs)#

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

accumulate([axis, dtype, out, constant])

Not implemented

at(indices[, b, constant])

Not implemented

outer(b, *[, dtype, out])

Not Implemented

reduce([axis, dtype, out, keepdims, ...])

Not Implemented

reduceat(indices[, axis, dtype, out])

Not Implemented

resolve_dtypes(dtypes, *[, signature, ...])

Find the dtypes NumPy will use for the operation.

Attributes

identity

nargs

nin

nout

ntypes

signature

types