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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 */
package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis;

import org.apache.commons.math3.RealFieldElement;

/**
 * An interface representing a univariate real function.
 *
 * <p>When a <em>user-defined</em> function encounters an error during evaluation, the {@link
 * #value(RealFieldElement) value} method should throw a <em>user-defined</em> unchecked exception.
 *
 * <p>The following code excerpt shows the recommended way to do that using a root solver as an
 * example, but the same construct is applicable to ODE integrators or optimizers.
 *
 * <pre>
 * private static class LocalException extends RuntimeException {
 *     // The x value that caused the problem.
 *     private final SomeFieldType x;
 *
 *     public LocalException(SomeFieldType x) {
 *         this.x = x;
 *     }
 *
 *     public double getX() {
 *         return x;
 *     }
 * }
 *
 * private static class MyFunction implements FieldUnivariateFunction&lt;SomeFieldType&gt; {
 *     public SomeFieldType value(SomeFieldType x) {
 *         SomeFieldType y = hugeFormula(x);
 *         if (somethingBadHappens) {
 *           throw new LocalException(x);
 *         }
 *         return y;
 *     }
 * }
 *
 * public void compute() {
 *     try {
 *         solver.solve(maxEval, new MyFunction(a, b, c), min, max);
 *     } catch (LocalException le) {
 *         // Retrieve the x value.
 *     }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * As shown, the exception is local to the user's code and it is guaranteed that Apache Commons Math
 * will not catch it.
 *
 * @param <T> the type of the field elements
 * @since 3.6
 * @see UnivariateFunction
 */
public interface RealFieldUnivariateFunction<T extends RealFieldElement<T>> {
    /**
     * Compute the value of the function.
     *
     * @param x Point at which the function value should be computed.
     * @return the value of the function.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException when the activated method itself can ascertain that a
     *     precondition, specified in the API expressed at the level of the activated method, has
     *     been violated. When Commons Math throws an {@code IllegalArgumentException}, it is
     *     usually the consequence of checking the actual parameters passed to the method.
     */
    T value(T x);
}