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017
018package org.apache.commons.math3.ml.neuralnet.sofm;
019
020/**
021 * Provides the network neighbourhood's size as a function of the
022 * number of calls already performed during the learning task.
023 * The "neighbourhood" is the set of neurons that can be reached
024 * by traversing at most the number of links returned by this
025 * function.
026 *
027 * @since 3.3
028 */
029public interface NeighbourhoodSizeFunction {
030    /**
031     * Computes the neighbourhood size at the current call.
032     *
033     * @param numCall Current step of the training task.
034     * @return the value of the function at {@code numCall}.
035     */
036    int value(long numCall);
037}