pydsm.utilities.chop¶

pydsm.utilities.chop(x, tol=2.2204460492503131e-14)¶

Chop to zero input numbers that are close to zero.

Parameters:

Parameters:	x : float, complex or array_like number to process tol : float, optional absolute tolerance. Defaults to 100 times the system epsilon.
Returns:	y : float y is zero if x is close to zero according to the tolerance. Alternatively, y is x.

x : float, complex or array_like

number to process

tol : float, optional

absolute tolerance. Defaults to 100 times the system epsilon.

Returns:

y : float

y is zero if x is close to zero according to the tolerance. Alternatively, y is x.

Notes

If the input is an array, it is always copied. See also is_negligible.