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 <title>About the Math Toolkit</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="../math.css" type="text/css">
 <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1">
-<link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="Math Toolkit 2.10.0">
+<link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="Math Toolkit 2.11.0">
 <link rel="up" href="../overview.html" title="Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Overview">
 <link rel="prev" href="../overview.html" title="Chapter&#160;1.&#160;Overview">
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     </h5>
 <p>
       Utility functions for dealing with floating-point arithmetic, includes functions
-      for floating point classification (fpclassify, isnan, isinf etc), sign manipulation,
-      rounding, comparison, and computing the distance between floating point numbers.
+      for floating point classification (<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">fpclassify</span></code>,
+      <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">isnan</span></code>, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">isinf</span></code>
+      etc), sign manipulation, rounding, comparison, and computing the distance between
+      floating point numbers.
     </p>
 <h5>
 <a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.h1"></a>
@@ -45,8 +47,8 @@
       Width Floating-Point Types</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
-      A set of typedefs similar to those provided by <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">cstdint</span><span class="special">&gt;</span></code>
-      but for floating-point types.
+      A set of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">typedef</span></code>s similar to those
+      provided by <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">cstdint</span><span class="special">&gt;</span></code> but for floating-point types.
     </p>
 <h5>
 <a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.h2"></a>
@@ -54,8 +56,8 @@
       Constants</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
-      A wide range of constants ranging from various multiples of &#960;, fractions, through
-      to euler's constant etc.
+      A wide range of high-precision constants ranging from various multiples of
+      &#960;, fractions, through to Euler's constant etc.
     </p>
 <p>
       These are of course usable from template code, or as non-templates with a simplified
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@
       Special Functions</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
-      Provides a small number of high quality <a class="link" href="../special.html" title="Chapter&#160;7.&#160;Special Functions">special functions</a>,
+      Provides a small number of high quality <a class="link" href="../special.html" title="Chapter&#160;8.&#160;Special Functions">special functions</a>,
       initially these were concentrated on functions used in statistical applications
       along with those in the <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf" target="_top">Technical
       Report on C++ Library Extensions</a>.
@@ -142,16 +144,17 @@
       <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.interpolation"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.interpolation">Interpolation</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
-      Function interpolation via Barycentric or cubic B_spline approximations.
+      Function interpolation via Barycentric or cubic B_spline approximations. Smoothing.
     </p>
 <h5>
 <a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.h8"></a>
-      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.numerical_integration_and_differ"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.numerical_integration_and_differ">Numerical
-      Integration and Differentiation</a>
+      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.numerical_integration_quadrature"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.numerical_integration_quadrature">Numerical
+      Integration (Quadrature) and Differentiation</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
       A reasonably comprehensive set of routines for integration (trapezoidal, Gauss-Legendre,
-      Gauss-Kronrod and double-exponential) and differentiation.
+      Gauss-Kronrod and double-exponential) and differentiation. (See also automatic
+      differentiation).
     </p>
 <p>
       The integration routines are all usable for functions returning complex results
@@ -163,7 +166,16 @@
       and Octonions</a>
     </h5>
 <p>
-      Quaternion and Octonians as class templates similar to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">complex</span></code>.
+      Quaternions and Octonians as class templates similar to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">complex</span></code>.
+    </p>
+<h5>
+<a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.h10"></a>
+      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.main_intro.automatic_differentiation"></a></span><a class="link" href="main_intro.html#math_toolkit.main_intro.automatic_differentiation">Automatic
+      Differentiation</a>
+    </h5>
+<p>
+      Autodiff is a header-only C++ library that facilitates the automaticdifferentiation
+      (forward mode) of mathematical functions of single and multiple variables.
     </p>
 </div>
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