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18  /*
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20   * It has been modified by the Hipparchus project
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22  package org.hipparchus.analysis.interpolation;
23  
24  import org.hipparchus.analysis.BivariateFunction;
25  import org.hipparchus.exception.MathIllegalArgumentException;
26  
27  /**
28   * Interface representing a bivariate real interpolating function where the
29   * sample points must be specified on a regular grid.
30   *
31   */
32  public interface BivariateGridInterpolator {
33      /**
34       * Compute an interpolating function for the dataset.
35       *
36       * @param xval All the x-coordinates of the interpolation points, sorted
37       * in increasing order.
38       * @param yval All the y-coordinates of the interpolation points, sorted
39       * in increasing order.
40       * @param fval The values of the interpolation points on all the grid knots:
41       * {@code fval[i][j] = f(xval[i], yval[j])}.
42       * @return a function which interpolates the dataset.
43       * @throws MathIllegalArgumentException if any of the arrays has zero length.
44       * @throws MathIllegalArgumentException if the array lengths are inconsistent.
45       * @throws MathIllegalArgumentException if the array is not sorted.
46       * @throws MathIllegalArgumentException if the number of points is too small for
47       * the order of the interpolation
48       */
49      BivariateFunction interpolate(double[] xval, double[] yval,
50                                    double[][] fval)
51          throws MathIllegalArgumentException;
52  }