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017package org.apache.commons.math3.util;
018
019import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException;
020
021
022/**
023 * A strategy to pick a pivoting index of an array for doing partitioning.
024 * @see MedianOf3PivotingStrategy
025 * @see RandomPivotingStrategy
026 * @see CentralPivotingStrategy
027 * @since 3.4
028 */
029public interface PivotingStrategyInterface {
030
031    /**
032     * Find pivot index of the array so that partition and K<sup>th</sup>
033     * element selection can be made
034     * @param work data array
035     * @param begin index of the first element of the slice
036     * @param end index after the last element of the slice
037     * @return the index of the pivot element chosen between the
038     * first and the last element of the array slice
039     * @throws MathIllegalArgumentException when indices exceeds range
040     */
041    int pivotIndex(double[] work, int begin, int end)
042        throws MathIllegalArgumentException;
043
044}