Space.java

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package org.apache.commons.math3.geometry;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.MathUnsupportedOperationException;

/** This interface represents a generic space, with affine and vectorial counterparts.
 * @see Vector
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface Space extends Serializable {

    /** Get the dimension of the space.
     * @return dimension of the space
     */
    int getDimension();

    /** Get the n-1 dimension subspace of this space.
     * @return n-1 dimension sub-space of this space
     * @see #getDimension()
     * @exception MathUnsupportedOperationException for dimension-1 spaces
     * which do not have sub-spaces
     */
    Space getSubSpace() throws MathUnsupportedOperationException;

}