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17 
18 package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;
19 
20 import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.differentiation.MultivariateDifferentiableFunction;
21 
22 /**
23  * This interface represents an optimization algorithm for
24  * {@link MultivariateDifferentiableFunction scalar differentiable objective
25  * functions}.
26  * Optimization algorithms find the input point set that either {@link GoalType
27  * maximize or minimize} an objective function.
28  *
29  * @see MultivariateOptimizer
30  * @see MultivariateDifferentiableVectorOptimizer
31  *
32  * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
33  * @since 3.1
34  */
35 @Deprecated
36 public interface MultivariateDifferentiableOptimizer
37     extends BaseMultivariateOptimizer<MultivariateDifferentiableFunction> {}
38