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Statistical sampling library for use in virtdata libraries, based on apache commons math 4

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package org.apache.commons.math4.analysis.differentiation;

import org.apache.commons.math4.analysis.MultivariateFunction;
import org.apache.commons.math4.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException;

/**
 * Extension of {@link MultivariateFunction} representing a
 * multivariate differentiable real function.
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface MultivariateDifferentiableFunction extends MultivariateFunction {

    /**
     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
     *
     * @param point Point at which the function must be evaluated.
     * @return the function value for the given point.
     * @exception MathIllegalArgumentException if {@code point} does not
     * satisfy the function's constraints (wrong dimension, argument out of bound,
     * or unsupported derivative order for example)
     */
    DerivativeStructure value(DerivativeStructure[] point)
        throws MathIllegalArgumentException;

}