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17
18package org.apache.commons.math.analysis;
19
20import org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;
21
22/**
23 * An interface representing a multivariate vectorial function.
24 * @version $Revision: 1070725 $ $Date: 2011-02-15 02:31:12 +0100 (mar. 15 févr. 2011) $
25 * @since 2.0
26 */
27public interface MultivariateVectorialFunction {
28
29    /**
30     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
31     * @param point point at which the function must be evaluated
32     * @return function value for the given point
33     * @exception FunctionEvaluationException if the function evaluation fails
34     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if points dimension is wrong
35     */
36    double[] value(double[] point)
37        throws FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;
38
39}
40