RFR: 8370057: Correct scale handling of BigDecimal.sqrt

[Joe Darcy]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:54:44 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In the test, starting [here](https://github.com/jddarcy/jdk/blob/2393649538a1fc33801d50c257b4e8dbeb2f821b/test/jdk/java/math/BigDecimal/SquareRootTests.java#L555), there's a comment about an algorithm presented in a paper.
> 
> Is it still relevant?

Yes; that comment still describes the alternative algorithm used in the test.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27882#issuecomment-3422461103