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package cern.jet.math;

/**
 * Only for performance tuning of compute intensive linear algebraic computations.
 * Constructs functions that return one of
 * <ul>
 * <li><tt>a * constant</tt>
 * <li><tt>a / constant</tt>
 * </ul> 
 * <tt>a</tt> is variable, <tt>constant</tt> is fixed, but for performance reasons publicly accessible.
 * Intended to be passed to <tt>matrix.assign(function)</tt> methods.
 */
public final class Mult implements cern.colt.function.DoubleFunction {
	/**
	 * Public read/write access to avoid frequent object construction.
	 */
	public double multiplicator;
/**
 * Insert the method's description here.
 * Creation date: (8/10/99 19:12:09)
 */
protected Mult(final double multiplicator) {
	this.multiplicator = multiplicator;
}
/**
 * Returns the result of the function evaluation.
 */
public final double apply(double a) {
	return a * multiplicator;
}
/**
 * <tt>a / constant</tt>.
 */
public static Mult div(final double constant) {
	return mult(1/constant);
}
/**
 * <tt>a * constant</tt>.
 */
public static Mult mult(final double constant) {
	return new Mult(constant);
}
}
