Name: jl125535 Date: 01/14/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
I see BigInteger has a pow() method that takes an int argument, but it would be EXTEREMLY helpful, especially in the scientific world, if there was another pow() method that accepted a float or double as a param.

Also BigDecimal doesn't even have a pow() function!


JUSTIFICATION :
One main reason would be to pass .5 to allow for the sqrt() of a BigInteger or BigDecimal. So if the pow() method with a double or float parameter is not possible could a sqrt() function be added to the method list of BigInteger or BigDecimal?

Unfortunately, java.lang.Math.pow() is insufficient for gigantic numbers.
(Incident Review ID: 225220)
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