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Complex-Step Differentiation (johnlapeyre.com)
3 points by aidanrocke on March 1, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This article uses a Julia implementation to explain how the complex-step method allows us to easily compute derivatives of analytic functions up to machine-precision.

Possibly the best short blog post on this subject on the internet.




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