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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis;
019
020/**
021 * An interface representing a multivariate real function.
022 *
023 * @since 2.0
024 */
025public interface MultivariateFunction {
026
027    /**
028     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
029     *
030     * @param point Point at which the function must be evaluated.
031     * @return the function value for the given point.
032     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException
033     * if the parameter's dimension is wrong for the function being evaluated.
034     * @throws  org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException
035     * when the activated method itself can ascertain that preconditions,
036     * specified in the API expressed at the level of the activated method,
037     * have been violated.  In the vast majority of cases where Commons Math
038     * throws this exception, it is the result of argument checking of actual
039     * parameters immediately passed to a method.
040     */
041    double value(double[] point);
042}