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MediumCalculusca-354

Normalized Descent Direction

Problem

The steepest descent direction is -grad / ||grad||.

Given a nonzero gradient vector, return the unit descent direction.

Hint

Negate and divide by the Euclidean norm.

Test cases

case 1
in: [[3,4]]
expected: [-0.6,-0.8]
case 2
in: [[1,0,0]]
expected: [-1,0,0]
case 3
in: [[0,-2]]
expected: [0,1]
Starter codePython
def normalized_descent_direction(grad):
    # Your code here
    pass

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