[m-users.] Announcement: automatic differentiation in Mercury

[Richard O'Keefe]

Thanks and praise.
I'm familiar with dual numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number
and have used them, but I do not
understand the extra parameter in this code and have no
idea what a 'tape' is.  Where is that described?

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 15:15, Mark Clements <mark.clements at ki.se> wrote:

> As a Christmas project, I have implemented automatic differentiation in
> Mercury, including both backwards and forwards differentiation. The ad
> module adapts an approach used in
> https://github.com/qobi/AD-Rosetta-Stone/, with a purely functional
> implementation.
>
> See https://github.com/mclements/mercury-ad for documentation and some
> examples.
>
> Sincerely, Mark.
>
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