ddot

Calculate the dot product of two double-precision floating-point vectors.

The dot product (or scalar product) is defined as

Installation

npm install @stdlib/blas-ddot

Usage

var ddot = require( '@stdlib/blas-ddot' );

ddot( x, y[, dim] )

Calculates the dot product of two double-precision floating-point vectors x and y.

var Float64Array = require( '@stdlib/array-float64' );
var array = require( '@stdlib/ndarray-array' );

var x = array( new Float64Array( [ 4.0, 2.0, -3.0, 5.0, -1.0 ] ) );
var y = array( new Float64Array( [ 2.0, 6.0, -1.0, -4.0, 8.0 ] ) );

var z = ddot( x, y );
// returns <ndarray>

var v = z.get();
// returns -5.0

The function has the following parameters:

• x: a non-zero-dimensional ndarray whose underlying data type is float64. Must be broadcast-compatible with y.
• y: a non-zero-dimensional ndarray whose underlying data type is float64. Must be broadcast-compatible with x.
• dim: dimension for which to compute the dot product. Must be a negative integer. Negative indices are resolved relative to the last array dimension, with the last dimension corresponding to -1. Default: -1.

If provided at least one input ndarray having more than one dimension, the input ndarrays are broadcasted to a common shape. For multi-dimensional input ndarrays, the function performs batched computation, such that the function computes the dot product for each pair of vectors in x and y according to the specified dimension index.

var Float64Array = require( '@stdlib/array-float64' );
var array = require( '@stdlib/ndarray-array' );

var opts = {
    'shape': [ 2, 3 ]
};
var x = array( new Float64Array( [ 4.0, 2.0, -3.0, 5.0, -1.0, 3.0 ] ), opts );
var y = array( new Float64Array( [ 2.0, 6.0, -1.0, -4.0, 8.0, 2.0 ] ), opts );

var z = ddot( x, y );
// returns <ndarray>

var v1 = z.get( 0 );
// returns 23.0

var v2 = z.get( 1 );
// returns -22.0

Notes

• The size of the contracted dimension must be the same for both input ndarrays.
• The function resolves the dimension index for which to compute the dot product before broadcasting.
• Negative indices are resolved relative to the last ndarray dimension, with the last dimension corresponding to -1.
• The output ndarray has the same data type as the input ndarrays and has a shape which is determined by broadcasting and excludes the contracted dimension.
• If provided empty vectors, the dot product is 0.
• ddot() provides a higher-level interface to the BLAS level 1 function ddot.

Examples

var discreteUniform = require( '@stdlib/random-array-discrete-uniform' );
var ndarray2array = require( '@stdlib/ndarray-to-array' );
var array = require( '@stdlib/ndarray-array' );
var ddot = require( '@stdlib/blas-ddot' );

var opts = {
    'dtype': 'float64'
};

var x = array( discreteUniform( 10, 0, 100, opts ), {
    'shape': [ 5, 2 ]
});
console.log( ndarray2array( x ) );

var y = array( discreteUniform( 10, 0, 10, opts ), {
    'shape': x.shape
});
console.log( ndarray2array( y ) );

var z = ddot( x, y, -1 );
console.log( ndarray2array( z ) );

See Also

• @stdlib/blas-base/ddot: calculate the dot product of two double-precision floating-point vectors.
• @stdlib/blas-gdot: calculate the dot product of two vectors.
• @stdlib/blas-sdot: calculate the dot product of two single-precision floating-point vectors.

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