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# scipy.fft.next_fast_len

scipy.fft.next_fast_len(target, real=False)

  Find the next fast size of input data to `fft`, for zero-padding, etc.

  SciPy’s FFT algorithms gain their speed by a recursive divide and conquer strategy. This relies on efficient functions for small prime factors of the input length. Thus, the transforms are fastest when using composites of the prime factors handled by the fft implementation. If there are efficient functions for all radices <= n, then the result will be a number x >= `target` with only prime factors < n. (Also known as n-smooth numbers)

  Parameters:
    target int

      Length to start searching from. Must be a positive integer.

    real bool, optional

      True if the FFT involves real input or output (e.g., `rfft` or `hfft` but not `fft`). Defaults to False.

  Returns:
    out int

      The smallest fast length greater than or equal to `target`.

  Notes

  The result of this function may change in future as performance considerations change, for example, if new prime factors are added.

  Calling `fft` or `ifft` with real input data performs an `'R2C'` transform internally.

  Examples

  On a particular machine, an FFT of prime length takes 11.4 ms:

      >>> from scipy import fft
      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> rng = np.random.default_rng()
      >>> min_len = 93059  # prime length is worst case for speed
      >>> a = rng.standard_normal(min_len)
      >>> b = fft.fft(a)

  Zero-padding to the next regular length reduces computation time to 1.6 ms, a speedup of 7.3 times:

      >>> fft.next_fast_len(min_len, real=True)
      93312
      >>> b = fft.fft(a, 93312)

  Rounding up to the next power of 2 is not optimal, taking 3.0 ms to compute; 1.9 times longer than the size given by `next_fast_len`:

      >>> b = fft.fft(a, 131072)