Raymond | dee0849 | 2015-04-02 10:43:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more |
| 3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| 4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
| 5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| 6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| 7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| 8 | * |
| 9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| 10 | * |
| 11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| 12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| 13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| 14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| 15 | * limitations under the License. |
| 16 | */ |
| 17 | package org.apache.commons.math; |
| 18 | |
| 19 | |
| 20 | /** |
| 21 | * Interface representing <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Field.html">field</a> elements. |
| 22 | * @param <T> the type of the field elements |
| 23 | * @see Field |
| 24 | * @version $Revision: 811685 $ $Date: 2009-09-05 19:36:48 +0200 (sam. 05 sept. 2009) $ |
| 25 | * @since 2.0 |
| 26 | */ |
| 27 | public interface FieldElement<T> { |
| 28 | |
| 29 | /** Compute this + a. |
| 30 | * @param a element to add |
| 31 | * @return a new element representing this + a |
| 32 | */ |
| 33 | T add(T a); |
| 34 | |
| 35 | /** Compute this - a. |
| 36 | * @param a element to subtract |
| 37 | * @return a new element representing this - a |
| 38 | */ |
| 39 | T subtract(T a); |
| 40 | |
| 41 | /** Compute this × a. |
| 42 | * @param a element to multiply |
| 43 | * @return a new element representing this × a |
| 44 | */ |
| 45 | T multiply(T a); |
| 46 | |
| 47 | /** Compute this ÷ a. |
| 48 | * @param a element to add |
| 49 | * @return a new element representing this ÷ a |
| 50 | * @exception ArithmeticException if a is the zero of the |
| 51 | * additive operation (i.e. additive identity) |
| 52 | */ |
| 53 | T divide(T a) throws ArithmeticException; |
| 54 | |
| 55 | /** Get the {@link Field} to which the instance belongs. |
| 56 | * @return {@link Field} to which the instance belongs |
| 57 | */ |
| 58 | Field<T> getField(); |
| 59 | |
| 60 | } |