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Polynomial Evaluation: Example and Test
 

# include <cppad/cppad.hpp>
# include <cmath>

bool Poly(void)
{	bool ok = true;

	// degree of the polynomial
	size_t deg = 3;

	// set the polynomial coefficients 
	CPPAD_TEST_VECTOR<double>   a(deg + 1);
	size_t i;
	for(i = 0; i <= deg; i++)
		a[i] = 1.;

	// evaluate this polynomial
	size_t k = 0;
	double z = 2.;
	double p = CppAD::Poly(k, a, z);
	ok      &= (p == 1. + z + z*z + z*z*z);

	// evaluate derivative
	k = 1;
	p = CppAD::Poly(k, a, z);
	ok &= (p == 1 + 2.*z + 3.*z*z); 
	
	return ok;
}


Input File: example/poly.cpp