RFR: 8077587: BigInteger Roots [v23]

[fabioromano1]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:02:06 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The integers are closed under positive powers, and not under positive nthRoots, this is true. However, the problem remains, as if the root degree `n` is negative, then for radicands that are not 1, -1 or 0 we should return 0, and zero raised to a negative exponent is undefined in real numbers, and so the remainder is.
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> @fabioromano1 Let me know when your changes settle down and the code is ready for another review round. I'd prefer to aim at a fixed rather than a quickly moving target ;-)

@rgiulietti I think I'm not going to do other changes for now.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24898#issuecomment-3140021363