chebyshev_nodes — MATH numerics op

• Data kinds: none → signal (an op determined by its arguments alone — it takes no image or data input)

• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.chebyshev_nodes(n: 'int', a: 'float' = -1.0, b: 'float' = 1.0, kind: 'int' = 2) -> 'np.ndarray' (to call the implementation directly, import mathnumerics; mathnumerics.chebyshev_nodes(n: 'int', a: 'float' = -1.0, b: 'float' = 1.0, kind: 'int' = 2) -> 'np.ndarray'; from the registry, opsmath.get("chebyshev_nodes"))

Usage

n Chebyshev points on the interval [a, b] (in ascending order).

kind=2 (default) gives the Chebyshev–Lobatto points x_k = cos(kπ/(n−1)) including the endpoints; kind=1 gives the Chebyshev–Gauss points cos((2k+1)π/(2n)) excluding the endpoints. They get denser toward the ends and suppress the wild swings of polynomial interpolation (Runge phenomenon).

Family-wide input contract (fail-closed)

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).

Detailed usage guide

• math_metrology family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• 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.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• numerics_tour — py -3.11 examples/numerics_tour.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept signal as input)

mat_solve · mat_lstsq · stat_describe · stat_histogram · stat_zscore · interp_linear · interp_cubic · interp_scattered

Same category (numerics)

erf · erfc · bessel · gauss_quadrature · gauss_cubature · chebyshev_coeffs_nd · chebyshev_eval_nd · low_discrepancy


*Provenance: mathnumerics.py — MATH operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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