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pycppad-> install get_started.py example ad_variable ad_function two_levels.py runge_kutta_4 whats_new license

ad_variable-> ad value ad_unary ad_numeric assign_op compare_op std_math abs condexp

ad-> ad.py

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@(@\newcommand{\B}[1]{{\bf #1}} \newcommand{\R}[1]{{\rm #1}}@)@Create an Object With One Higher Level of AD
Syntax
a_x = ad(x)

Purpose
Creates an AD object a_x that records floating point operations. An adfun object can later use this recording to evaluate function values and derivatives. These later evaluations are done using the same type as x (except when x is an instance of int, the later evaluations are done using float operations).

x
The argument x can be an instance of an int (AD level 0), or an instance of float (AD level 0), or an a_float (AD level 1). The argument x may also be a numpy.array with one of the element types listed in the previous sentence.

a_x
If x is an instance of int or float, a_x is an a_float (AD level 1). If x is an a_float, a_x is an a2float (AD level 2). If x is an numpy.array, a_x is also an numpy.array with the same shape as x .

Example
The file ad.py contains an example and test of this function.

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Input File: pycppad/__init__.py