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017    
018    package org.apache.commons.math.analysis;
019    
020    import org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;
021    
022    /**
023     * An interface representing a multivariate vectorial function.
024     * @version $Revision: 1070725 $ $Date: 2011-02-15 02:31:12 +0100 (mar. 15 f??vr. 2011) $
025     * @since 2.0
026     */
027    public interface MultivariateVectorialFunction {
028    
029        /**
030         * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
031         * @param point point at which the function must be evaluated
032         * @return function value for the given point
033         * @exception FunctionEvaluationException if the function evaluation fails
034         * @exception IllegalArgumentException if points dimension is wrong
035         */
036        double[] value(double[] point)
037            throws FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;
038    
039    }