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by OkayPhysicist 2242 days ago
Oh man, I read a super cool article about that about a year ago. It provided an algorithm for automatic differentiation using an imaginary number such that it times itself equaled 0, but wasn't equal to zero itself. I'll try to find the link.

I don't know if this was it, but an explanation nonetheless https://medium.com/@omaraflak/automatic-differentiation-4d26...