G4VDataSetAlgorithm.hh

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// Author: Maria Grazia Pia ([email protected])
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// History:
// -----------
// 31 Jul 2001   MGP                 Created
//
// 15 Jul 2009   N.A.Karakatsanis    New calculation method added to support interpolation
//                                   from datasets with pre-calculated logarithmic data
//
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Class description:
// Base class for a strategy pattern to encapsulate algorithms for interpolation of a data set
// Further documentation available from http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/lowE/index.html
 
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#ifndef G4VDATASETALGORITHM_HH
#define G4VDATASETALGORITHM_HH 1
 
#include "globals.hh"
#include "G4DataVector.hh"
 
class G4VDataSetAlgorithm {
 
public:
 
  G4VDataSetAlgorithm() { }
 
  virtual ~G4VDataSetAlgorithm() { }
 
  virtual G4double Calculate(G4double point, G4int bin, 
                 const G4DataVector& energies, 
                 const G4DataVector& data) const = 0;
 
  virtual G4double Calculate(G4double point, G4int bin,
                             const G4DataVector& energies,
                             const G4DataVector& data, 
                     const G4DataVector& log_energies, 
                     const G4DataVector& log_data) const = 0;
 
  virtual G4VDataSetAlgorithm* Clone() const = 0;
 
private:
  
  // Hide copy constructor and assignment operator
  G4VDataSetAlgorithm(const G4VDataSetAlgorithm&);
  G4VDataSetAlgorithm& operator=(const G4VDataSetAlgorithm& right);
 
};
 
#endif