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# irfftn

scipy.fft.irfftn(x, s=None, axes=None, norm=None, overwrite_x=False, workers=None, *, plan=None)

  Computes the inverse of `rfftn`

  This function computes the inverse of the N-D discrete Fourier Transform for real input over any number of axes in an M-D array by means of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). In other words, `irfftn(rfftn(x), x.shape) == x` to within numerical accuracy. (The `a.shape` is necessary like `len(a)` is for `irfft`, and for the same reason.)

  The input should be ordered in the same way as is returned by `rfftn`, i.e., as for `irfft` for the final transformation axis, and as for `ifftn` along all the other axes.

  Parameters:
    x array_like

      Input array.

    s sequence of ints, optional

      Shape (length of each transformed axis) of the output (`s[0]` refers to axis 0, `s[1]` to axis 1, etc.). s is also the number of input points used along this axis, except for the last axis, where `s[-1]//2+1` points of the input are used. Along any axis, if the shape indicated by s is smaller than that of the input, the input is cropped. If it is larger, the input is padded with zeros. If s is not given, the shape of the input along the axes specified by axes is used. Except for the last axis which is taken to be `2*(m-1)`, where `m` is the length of the input along that axis.

    axes sequence of ints, optional

      Axes over which to compute the inverse FFT. If not given, the last len(s) axes are used, or all axes if s is also not specified.

    norm{“backward”, “ortho”, “forward”}, optional

      Normalization mode (see `fft`). Default is “backward”.

    overwrite_x bool, optional

      If True, the contents of x can be destroyed; the default is False. See `fft` for more details.

    workers int, optional

      Maximum number of workers to use for parallel computation. If negative, the value wraps around from `os.cpu_count()`. See `fft` for more details.

    plan object, optional

      This argument is reserved for passing in a precomputed plan provided by downstream FFT vendors. It is currently not used in SciPy.

      Added in version 1.5.0.

  Returns:
    out ndarray

      The truncated or zero-padded input, transformed along the axes indicated by axes, or by a combination of s or x, as explained in the parameters section above. The length of each transformed axis is as given by the corresponding element of s, or the length of the input in every axis except for the last one if s is not given. In the final transformed axis the length of the output when s is not given is `2*(m-1)`, where `m` is the length of the final transformed axis of the input. To get an odd number of output points in the final axis, s must be specified.

  Raises:
    ValueError

      If s and axes have different length.

    IndexError

      If an element of axes is larger than the number of axes of x.

  See also

  `rfftn`

    The forward N-D FFT of real input, of which `ifftn` is the inverse.

  `fft`

    The 1-D FFT, with definitions and conventions used.

  `irfft`

    The inverse of the 1-D FFT of real input.

  `irfft2`

    The inverse of the 2-D FFT of real input.

  Notes

  See `fft` for definitions and conventions used.

  See `rfft` for definitions and conventions used for real input.

  The default value of s assumes an even output length in the final transformation axis. When performing the final complex to real transformation, the Hermitian symmetry requires that the last imaginary component along that axis must be 0 and so it is ignored. To avoid losing information, the correct length of the real input must be given.

  Array API Standard Support

  `irfftn` has experimental support for Python Array API Standard compatible backends in addition to NumPy. Please consider testing these features by setting an environment variable `SCIPY_ARRAY_API=1` and providing CuPy, PyTorch, JAX, or Dask arrays as array arguments. The following combinations of backend and device (or other capability) are supported.

  Library | CPU | GPU
  --- | --- | ---
  NumPy | ✅ | n/a
  CuPy | n/a | ✅
  PyTorch | ✅ | ✅
  JAX | ✅ | ✅
  Dask | ⚠️ computes graph | n/a

  > See Support for the array API standard for more information.

  Examples

      >>> import scipy.fft
      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> x = np.zeros((3, 2, 2))
      >>> x[0, 0, 0] = 3 * 2 * 2
      >>> scipy.fft.irfftn(x)
      array([[[1.,  1.],
              [1.,  1.]],
             [[1.,  1.],
              [1.,  1.]],
             [[1.,  1.],
              [1.,  1.]]])