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package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;

import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.MultivariateFunction;

/**
 * This interface is mainly intended to enforce the internal coherence of Commons-FastMath. Users of
 * the API are advised to base their code on the following interfaces:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateOptimizer}
 *   <li>{@link org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer}
 * </ul>
 *
 * @param <FUNC> Type of the objective function to be optimized.
 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
 * @since 3.0
 */
@Deprecated
public interface BaseMultivariateOptimizer<FUNC extends MultivariateFunction>
        extends BaseOptimizer<PointValuePair> {
    /**
     * Optimize an objective function.
     *
     * @param f Objective function.
     * @param goalType Type of optimization goal: either {@link GoalType#MAXIMIZE} or {@link
     *     GoalType#MINIMIZE}.
     * @param startPoint Start point for optimization.
     * @param maxEval Maximum number of function evaluations.
     * @return the point/value pair giving the optimal value for objective function.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException if the start point
     *     dimension is wrong.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.TooManyEvaluationsException if the maximal number
     *     of evaluations is exceeded.
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException if any argument is {@code
     *     null}.
     * @deprecated As of 3.1. In 4.0, it will be replaced by the declaration corresponding to this
     *     {@link
     *     org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.direct.BaseAbstractMultivariateOptimizer#optimize(int,MultivariateFunction,GoalType,OptimizationData[])
     *     method}.
     */
    @Deprecated
    PointValuePair optimize(int maxEval, FUNC f, GoalType goalType, double[] startPoint);
}