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2 * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Le Berre
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19 * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20 *
21 * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22 * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23 * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24 *
25 * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
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28 package org.sat4j.specs;
29
30 /**
31 * The most general abstraction for handling a constraint.
32 *
33 * @author leberre
34 *
35 */
36 public interface IConstr {
37
38 /**
39 * @return true iff the clause was learnt during the search
40 */
41 boolean learnt();
42
43 /**
44 * @return the number of literals in the constraint.
45 */
46 int size();
47
48 /**
49 * returns the ith literal in the constraint
50 *
51 * @param i
52 * the index of the literal
53 * @return a literal
54 */
55 int get(int i);
56
57 /**
58 * To obtain the activity of the constraint.
59 *
60 * @return the activity of the clause.
61 * @since 2.1
62 */
63 double getActivity();
64
65 }