RFR: 8334755: Asymptotically faster implementation of square root algorithm [v5]

[fabioromano1]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:48:59 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelinski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Most likely. If you check the code you'll notice that most methods that change the `MutableBigInteger` value (like `subtract`) call `normalize` after performing the operation, so the values should be normalized most of the time.

@djelinski Unfortunately, this is not always true. In fact, without forcing normalization before comparing, the program leads to failure in thousands of cases, while forcing the normalization resolves all the failures...

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19710#discussion_r1650033332