/* XXL: The eXtensible and fleXible Library for data processing Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seeger Head of the Database Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Marburg Germany This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. http://code.google.com/p/xxl/ */ package xxl.core.math.functions; /** This interface models a mathematical real-valued, one-dimensional function. * Classes implementing this interface need to implement an abstract method {@link #eval(double x)} that consumes * and returns double values. */ public interface RealFunction { /** Evaluates the real-valued function. * * @param x function argument * @return function value */ public abstract double eval(double x); }