On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: > >> Tim Lahey wrote: >> >>> I presume that Sage can't take a derivative with respect to a >>> function >>> (Maple can't which is why this code is written this way). >> >> By the way, what do you mean by that? What is the operation that >> you would like to do, but fails? Thanks for the info. > > You could use automatic differentiation, but that has yet to be > implemented in Sage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Automatic_differentiation
Umh, was that just a really fancy way to say "use the chain rule"? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
