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package org.apache.commons.math.analysis;


import org.apache.commons.math.FunctionEvaluationException;

/**
 * An interface representing a multivariate matrix function.
 * @version $Revision: 1073158 $ $Date: 2011-02-21 22:46:52 +0100 (lun. 21 févr. 2011) $
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface MultivariateMatrixFunction {

    /**
     * Compute the value for the function at the given point.
     * @param point point at which the function must be evaluated
     * @return function value for the given point
     * @exception FunctionEvaluationException if the function evaluation fails
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if points dimension is wrong
     */
    double[][] value(double[] point)
        throws FunctionEvaluationException, IllegalArgumentException;

}