interp_poly op• Data kinds: signal × signal → signal
• Call: import mathops; mathops.poly_eval(coeffs, x) (or opsmath.get("poly_eval"))
Evaluate a polynomial (coefficients highest-power-first) at *x*.
*coeffs* is the 1-D array :func:poly_fit returns in `"coeffs"` (or any
hand-written one, `[c_d, ..., c_1, c_0]`); *x* is a finite scalar or 1-D
array. A scalar returns a Python float, an array returns float64.
Evaluation is by Horner's scheme (`np.polyval`) — numerically the right
way to evaluate, though it cannot repair a badly-conditioned *fit* (see
:func:poly_fit's `cond`).
HALCON: no polynomial tuple operator (compose `tuple_pow` + arithmetic).
Raises ValueError when a finite input overflows float64 — a degree-*d*
polynomial at `|x| well above 1 grows like |x|**d`, so mixing up the
two arguments (a long signal used as coefficients) silently produced `inf`
before this guard (chain fuzzer wave-7: 256 coefficients evaluated at
`|x|<=22 -> 22**255). An unusable inf` must not flow downstream.
Every mathops op validates its input before computing (nothing slips through silently):
• **complex input raises ValueError** — coercing to float64 silently discards the imaginary part (numpy only emits a ComplexWarning and returns a plausible-looking wrong real number). State .real/.imag/abs() explicitly, or use complexops, which handles complex data.
• **masked arrays with masked elements raise ValueError** — the implicit conversion that peels off the mask and uses the raw values underneath is refused. Say explicitly whether to fill or to drop.
• **NaN/Inf raises ValueError on every input** (refused with the count stated — it propagates through the whole result).
• Shapes are strict: 1-D and 2-D are never implicitly promoted or broadcast (a matrix in a vector slot, or a vector in a matrix slot, raises ValueError; reshape explicitly).
• Size cap: ops that take a matrix, and the stat_histogram bins, raise ValueError beyond mathops.MAX_ELEMENTS (2^26 ≈ 67 million elements).
• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).
• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.
• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.
• math_metrology — py -3.11 examples/math_metrology.py
• signal_filter — py -3.11 examples/signal_filter.py
signal as input)mat_solve · mat_lstsq · stat_describe · stat_histogram · stat_zscore · interp_linear · interp_cubic · poly_fit
interp_poly)interp_linear · interp_cubic · poly_fit · poly_roots
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