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Introduction
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For explanations of the terminology, see the
:std:doc:`Ocean glossary <oceandocs:concepts/index>`. For an introduction to
Ocean's programming model---and its use of models and samplers to solve hard
problems---see :std:doc:`Ocean’s Programming Model <oceandocs:getting_started>`.

The following sections give an orientation to dimod with usage examples:

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  intro_models
  intro_samplers
  intro_samples
  intro_symbolic_math
  intro_scaling