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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.differentiation;
019
020import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateFunction;
021import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException;
022
023/**
024 * Extension of {@link MultivariateFunction} representing a
025 * multivariate differentiable real function.
026 * @since 3.1
027 */
028public interface MultivariateDifferentiableFunction extends MultivariateFunction {
029
030    /**
031     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
032     *
033     * @param point Point at which the function must be evaluated.
034     * @return the function value for the given point.
035     * @exception MathIllegalArgumentException if {@code point} does not
036     * satisfy the function's constraints (wrong dimension, argument out of bound,
037     * or unsupported derivative order for example)
038     */
039    DerivativeStructure value(DerivativeStructure[] point)
040        throws MathIllegalArgumentException;
041
042}