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package org.hipparchus.analysis;
/**
* An interface representing a multivariate real function.
*
*/
public interface 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.
* @throws org.hipparchus.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException
* if the parameter's dimension is wrong for the function being evaluated.
* @throws org.hipparchus.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException
* when the activated method itself can ascertain that preconditions,
* specified in the API expressed at the level of the activated method,
* have been violated. In the vast majority of cases where Hipparchus
* throws this exception, it is the result of argument checking of actual
* parameters immediately passed to a method.
*/
double value(double[] point);
}