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package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling;

import org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider;

/**
 * Applies to samplers that can share state between instances. Samplers can be created with a
 * new source of randomness that sample from the same state.
 *
 * @param <R> Type of the sampler.
 * @since 1.3
 */
public interface SharedStateSampler<R> {
    /**
     * Create a new instance of the sampler with the same underlying state using the given
     * uniform random provider as the source of randomness.
     *
     * @param rng Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.
     * @return the sampler
     */
    R withUniformRandomProvider(UniformRandomProvider rng);
}