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Add algebraic and transcendental functions operating on BigDecimal

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      Name: rlT66838 Date: 12/08/99


      java version "1.3beta"
      Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3beta-O)
      Java(TM) HotSpot Client VM (build 1.3beta-O, mixed mode)

      java.lang.Math should be extended to support (at least) BigInteger, instead of
      just intrinsic types.

      java.lang.Math support the operations I need (pow(...)), but not on the kind of
      numbers I have.

      For what I'm doing, I need to take the nth root of an arbitrary-magnitude
      positive integer. With the JDK, that means using a BigInteger. However,
      java.lang.Math works with intrinsic number types only.

      I'm definitely using integers that are too big to represent with the 'long'
      type.
      (Review ID: 98785)
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      ###@###.### 10/28/04 01:04 GMT

            darcy Joe Darcy
            rlewis Roger Lewis (Inactive)
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