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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;
019
020import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.differentiation.MultivariateDifferentiableFunction;
021
022/**
023 * This interface represents an optimization algorithm for
024 * {@link MultivariateDifferentiableFunction scalar differentiable objective
025 * functions}.
026 * Optimization algorithms find the input point set that either {@link GoalType
027 * maximize or minimize} an objective function.
028 *
029 * @see MultivariateOptimizer
030 * @see MultivariateDifferentiableVectorOptimizer
031 *
032 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
033 * @since 3.1
034 */
035@Deprecated
036public interface MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer
037    extends BaseMultivariateOptimizer<MultivariateDifferentiableFunction> {}