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Number Taylor Coefficient Orders Currently Stored
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Syntax
******
| *s* = *f* . ``size_order`` ()

See Also
========
:ref:`fun_property-name`

Purpose
*******
Determine the number of Taylor coefficient orders, per variable,direction,
currently calculated and stored in the ADFun object *f* .
See the discussion under
:ref:`size_order@Constructor` ,
:ref:`size_order@Forward` , and
:ref:`size_order@capacity_order`
for a description of when this value can change.

f
*
The object *f* has prototype

   ``const ADFun`` < *Base* > *f*

s
*
The result *s* has prototype

   ``size_t`` *s*

and is the number of Taylor coefficient orders,
per variable,direction in the AD operation sequence,
currently calculated and stored in the ADFun object *f* .

Constructor
***********
Directly after the :ref:`fun_construct-name` syntax

   ``ADFun`` < *Base* > *f* ( *x* , *y* )

the value of *s* returned by ``size_order`` is one.
This is because
there is an implicit call to ``Forward`` that computes
the zero order Taylor coefficients during this constructor.

Forward
*******
After a call to :ref:`Forward<forward_order-name>` with the syntax

   *f* . ``Forward`` ( *q* , *x_q* )

the value of *s* returned by ``size_order``
would be :math:`q + 1`.
The call to ``Forward`` above
uses the lower order Taylor coefficients to compute and store
the *q*-th order Taylor coefficients for all
the variables in the operation sequence corresponding to *f* .
Thus there are :math:`q + 1` (order zero through *q* )
Taylor coefficients per variable,direction.
(You can determine the number of variables in the operation sequence
using the :ref:`fun_property@size_var` function.)

capacity_order
**************
If the number of Taylor coefficient orders
currently stored in *f* is less than or equal *c* ,
a call to :ref:`capacity_order-name` with the syntax

   *f* . ``capacity_order`` ( *c* )

does not affect the value *s* returned by ``size_order`` .
Otherwise,
the value *s* returned by ``size_order``
is equal to *c*
(only Taylor coefficients of order zero through :math:`c-1`
have been retained).

Example
*******
The file
:ref:`forward.cpp-name`
contains an example and test of this operation.

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