CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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John butler
John butler

Reputation: 9

python is giving ZERODIVISIONERROR. can anyone fix this

from math import sqrt
S1 = [1,0,0,0,1,0,0,2]
S3 = [0,1,1,2,0,1,2,0]
sum = 0
sums1 = 0
sums3 = 0

for i, j in zip(S1,S3):
   sums1 += i*i
   sums3 += j*j
   sum += i*j

   cosine_similarity = sum / ((sqrt(sums1)) * (sqrt(sums3)))
   print (cosine_similarity)

plz how can I remove this error from code. I want to find cosine similarity of vectors.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

cards
cards

Reputation: 4975

The error is due to the indentation level of the last two lines (as mentioned by in the comments by j1-lee):

   # ...
   sum += i*j

# deindentation
cosine_similarity = sum / ((sqrt(sums1)) * (sqrt(sums3)))
print (cosine_similarity)

Here another implementation by decomposing the definition of cosine similarity into smaller operations:

def scalar_product(a, b):
    return sum(a_i*b_i for a_i, b_i in zip(a, b))

def norm(a):
    return sum(a_i**2 for a_i in a )**.5

def cosine_similarity(a, b):
    return scalar_product(a, b) / (norm(a)*norm(b))


S1 = [1,0,0,0,1,0,0,2]
S3 = [0,1,1,2,0,1,2,0]

cs = cosine_similarity(S1, S3)
print(cs)
# 0.0   # orthogonality
cs = cosine_similarity(S1, S1)
print(cs)
# 1.0...# parallelity

Upvotes: 1

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