[Numpy-discussion] dot product

Nils Wagner nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de
Tue Mar 10 05:37:49 EDT 2009


Hi all,
  
The dot product can be defined for two vectors x and y by
x·y=|x||y| \cos(\theta), 	

where theta is the angle between the vectors and |x| is 
the norm.

Now assume that we have arrays(matrices)

X = [x_1, ..., x_m]

Y = [y_1, ..., y_s]

m <> s

Is there a built-in function to compute the following
matrix

for i in arange(0,m):
     for j in arange(0,s):
         MAC[i,j] = 
dot(X[:,i],Y[:,j])**2/(dot(X[:,i],X[:,i])*dot(Y[:,j],Y[:,j]))
  
Each element of the matrix represents the corresponding 
angle squared.

Nils
   



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