Get the Exponential of Each Element in Numpy Array

The Numpy library in Python comes with a number of built-in functions to perform common mathematical operations on arrays. In this tutorial, we will look at one such function that helps us get the element-wise exponential of a Numpy array with the help of some examples.

How to get the exponential in Numpy?

You can use the numpy.exp() function to get the exponential of all elements in a Numpy array. Pass the array as an argument.

The following is the syntax –

numpy.exp(ar)

It returns an array containing the exponential value of each element in the passed array.

Let’s now look at a step-by-step example of using the numpy.exp() function.

Step 1 – Create a Numpy array

First, we will create a Numpy array that we will use throughout this tutorial.

import numpy as np

# create numpy array
ar = np.array([-10, -1, 0, 1, 2, 10])
# display the array
print(ar)

Output:

[-10  -1   0   1   2  10]

Here, we used the numpy.array() function to create a Numpy array containing some numbers. You can see that the array contains both positive and negative integer values (along with a zero).

Step 2 – Get the exponential using numpy.exp()

To get the exponential of each element in a Numpy array, pass the array as an argument to the numpy.exp() function.

Let’s get the exponential for the array created above.

# get the exponential of each element
np.exp(ar)

Output:

array([4.53999298e-05, 3.67879441e-01, 1.00000000e+00, 2.71828183e+00,
       7.38905610e+00, 2.20264658e+04])

We get a Numpy array with the exponential value of each element in the array ar.

The numpy.exp() function works similarly on higher-dimensional arrays. For example, let’s apply this function to a 2D array of some numbers.

# create 2D numpy array
ar = np.array([[1, 0, 1],
               [0, 10, 2],
               [-10, 0, 1]])
# get the exponential of each element
np.exp(ar)

Output:

array([[2.71828183e+00, 1.00000000e+00, 2.71828183e+00],
       [1.00000000e+00, 2.20264658e+04, 7.38905610e+00],
       [4.53999298e-05, 1.00000000e+00, 2.71828183e+00]])

You can see that we get the exponential value of each element in the 2D array.

For more on the numpy.exp() function, refer to its documentation.

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