org.jscience.mathematics.structures
Interface VectorSpaceNormed<V,F extends Field>

All Superinterfaces:

GroupAdditive<V>, Immutable, Realtime, java.io.Serializable, Structure<V>, VectorSpace<V,F>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ComplexVector, Float64Vector, MeasureVector

public interface VectorSpaceNormed<V,F extends Field>
extends VectorSpace<V,F>

This interface represents a vector space on which a positive vector length or size is defined.

Version:

3.0, February 13, 2006

Author:

Jean-Marie Dautelle

See Also:

Wikipedia: Normed Vector Space

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface javolution.context.Realtime

Realtime.ObjectSpace

Method Summary

F	norm() Returns the positive length or size of this vector.

Methods inherited from interface org.jscience.mathematics.structures.VectorSpace

times

Methods inherited from interface org.jscience.mathematics.structures.GroupAdditive

opposite, plus

Methods inherited from interface javolution.context.Realtime

move, toText

Method Detail

norm

F norm()

Returns the positive length or size of this vector.

Returns:

|this|.

See Also:

Wikipedia: Vector Norm