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# numpy.bincount

numpy.bincount(x, /, weights=None, minlength=0)

  Count number of occurrences of each value in array of non-negative ints.

  The number of bins (of size 1) is one larger than the largest value in x. If minlength is specified, there will be at least this number of bins in the output array (though it will be longer if necessary, depending on the contents of x). Each bin gives the number of occurrences of its index value in x. If weights is specified the input array is weighted by it, i.e. if a value `n` is found at position `i`, `out[n] += weight[i]` instead of `out[n] += 1`.

  Parameters:
    x array_like, 1 dimension, nonnegative ints

      Input array.

    weights array_like, optional

      Weights, array of the same shape as x.

    minlength int, optional

      A minimum number of bins for the output array.

  Returns:
    out ndarray of ints

      The result of binning the input array. The length of out is equal to `np.amax(x)+1`.

  Raises:
    ValueError

      If the input is not 1-dimensional, or contains elements with negative values, or if minlength is negative.

    TypeError

      If the type of the input is float or complex.

  See also

  `histogram`, `digitize`, `unique`

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> np.bincount(np.arange(5))
      array([1, 1, 1, 1, 1])
      >>> np.bincount(np.array([0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7]))
      array([1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1])

      >>> x = np.array([0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 23])
      >>> np.bincount(x).size == np.amax(x)+1
      True

  The input array needs to be of integer dtype, otherwise a TypeError is raised:

      >>> np.bincount(np.arange(5, dtype=float))
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
      TypeError: Cannot cast array data from dtype('float64') to dtype('int64')
      according to the rule 'safe'

  A possible use of `bincount` is to perform sums over variable-size chunks of an array, using the `weights` keyword.

      >>> w = np.array([0.3, 0.5, 0.2, 0.7, 1., -0.6]) # weights
      >>> x = np.array([0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2])
      >>> np.bincount(x,  weights=w)
      array([ 0.3,  0.7,  1.1])