Dot product of two arrays.
For 2-D arrays it is equivalent to matrix multiplication, and for 1-D
arrays to inner product of vectors (without complex conjugation). For
N dimensions it is a sum product over the last axis of `a` and
the second-to-last of `b`::
dot(a, b)[i,j,k,m] = sum(a[i,j,:] * b[k,:,m])
Parameters
----------
a : array_like
First argument.
b : array_like
Second argument.
Returns
-------
output : ndarray
Returns the dot product of `a` and `b`. If `a` and `b` are both
scalars or both 1-D arrays then a scalar is returned; otherwise
an array is returned.
Raises
------
ValueError
If the last dimension of `a` is not the same size as
the second-to-last dimension of `b`.
See Also
--------
vdot : Complex-conjugating dot product.
tensordot : Sum products over arbitrary axes.
Examples
--------
>>> np.dot(3, 4)
12
Neither argument is complex-conjugated:
>>> np.dot([2j, 3j], [2j, 3j])
(-13+0j)
For 2-D arrays it's the matrix product:
>>> a = [[1, 0], [0, 1]]
>>> b = [[4, 1], [2, 2]]
>>> np.dot(a, b)
array([[4, 1],
[2, 2]])
>>> a = np.arange(3*4*5*6).reshape((3,4,5,6))
>>> b = np.arange(3*4*5*6)[::-1].reshape((5,4,6,3))
>>> np.dot(a, b)[2,3,2,1,2,2]
499128
>>> sum(a[2,3,2,:] * b[1,2,:,2])
499128
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