RFR: 8077587: BigInteger Roots [v82]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 14:34:06 GMT, fabioromano1 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR implements nth root computation for BigIntegers using Newton method.
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> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Revision changes

Personally I tend to remove code that is not used.
I can't recall why it was added: there might have been reasons that do no longer seem to be relevant.
It should be straightforward to add it once need arises.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24898#issuecomment-3266768567