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017
018 package org.apache.commons.math.analysis;
019
020 import org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;
021
022 /**
023 * An interface representing a multivariate vectorial function.
024 * @version $Revision: 1070725 $ $Date: 2011-02-15 02:31:12 +0100 (mar. 15 f??vr. 2011) $
025 * @since 2.0
026 */
027 public interface MultivariateVectorialFunction {
028
029 /**
030 * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
031 * @param point point at which the function must be evaluated
032 * @return function value for the given point
033 * @exception FunctionEvaluationException if the function evaluation fails
034 * @exception IllegalArgumentException if points dimension is wrong
035 */
036 double[] value(double[] point)
037 throws FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;
038
039 }