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The `ForwardDiff` package provides one of [several](https://juliadiff.org/) ways for `Julia` to compute automatic derivatives. `ForwardDiff` is well suited for functions encountered in these notes, which depend on at most a few variables and output no more than a few values at once.
The `ForwardDiff` package was loaded in this section; in general its features are available when the `CalculusWithJulia` package is loaded, as that package provides a more convenient interface. The `derivative` function is not exported by `FiniteDiff`, so its usage requires qualification. To illustrate, to find the derivative of $f(x)$ at a *point* we have this syntax:
The `ForwardDiff` package was loaded in this section; in general its features are available when the `CalculusWithJulia` package is loaded, as that package provides a more convenient interface. The `derivative` function is not exported by `ForwardDiff`, so its usage requires qualification. To illustrate, to find the derivative of $f(x)$ at a *point* we have this syntax:
```{julia}
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## Questions
##### Question
###### Question
Find the derivative using a forward difference approximation of $f(x) = x^x$ at the point $x=2$ using `h=0.1`:
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numericq(val)
```
##### Question
###### Question
Mathematically, as the value of `h` in the forward difference gets smaller the forward difference approximation gets better. On the computer, this is thwarted by floating point representation issues (in particular the error in subtracting two like-sized numbers in forming $f(x+h)-f(x)$.)
@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ f(x) = sin(x)
h = 1e-16
c = 0
approx = (f(c+h)-f(c))/h
val = abs(cos(0) - approx)
val = abs(cos(c) - approx)
numericq(val)
```
@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ f(x) = sin(x)
h = 1e-16
c = pi/4
approx = (f(c+h)-f(c))/h
val = abs(cos(0) - approx)
val = abs(cos(c) - approx)
numericq(val)
```