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Basic Software Structure for Derivative Calculation

Often, values are formed inside loops. Inside loop over events

This code can get rather tedious. ADIFOR formally differentiates ``existing'' FORTRAN code and uses ``chain rule'' to generate derivative calculations.



Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu