src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math3/analysis/MultivariateFunction.java


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package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis;

/**
 * An interface representing a multivariate real function.
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface MultivariateFunction {

    /**
     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
     *
     * @param point Point at which the function must be evaluated.
     * @return the function value for the given point.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException if the parameter's
     *     dimension is wrong for the function being evaluated.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException when the activated
     *     method itself can ascertain that preconditions, specified in the API expressed at the
     *     level of the activated method, have been violated. In the vast majority of cases where
     *     Commons Math throws this exception, it is the result of argument checking of actual
     *     parameters immediately passed to a method.
     */
    double value(double[] point);
}