RFR: 8366478: BigDecimal roots [v9]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:35:20 GMT, fabioromano1 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> An implementation of `BigDecimal.nthRoot(int, MathContext)`.
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> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Correct call to rootn() in sqrt()

I'm also wondering if we should restrict n to |n| ≤ 999'999'999, as in pow().
This would allow users of BigDecimal to implement corrective actions, as in the schema above, by themselves.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27148#issuecomment-3443841507