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- Let's first generalize the previous discussion to n
parameters---getting a vector
of first and matrix 
of
second derivatives
- Note that---in our approximation---M is positive
semi-definite---which is also a technical advantage.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu