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Artificial Neural Networks made easy with the FANN library

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Neural networks are typically associated with specialised applications, developed only by select groups of experts. This misconception has had a highly negative effect on its popularity. Hopefully, the FANN library will help fill this gap.
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>&#13;	    These constants represent the error functions used when calculating the error during training.
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>&#13;		  The tanh error function is an error function that makes large deviations 
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