On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:46:47 GMT, fabioromano1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/MutableBigInteger.java line 1936:
>>
>>> 1934: * where {@code nthRoot(., n)} denotes the mathematical {@code
>>> n}th root.
>>> 1935: * The contents of {@code this} are <em>not</em> changed. The
>>> value of {@code this}
>>> 1936: * is assumed to be non-negative and the root degree {@code n >=
>>> 3}.
>>
>> I don't think `this` can be negative, can it?
>
> @rgiulietti `this` could be negative if it were a `SignedMutableBigInteger`,
> by the way the same assumption is made in `MBI.sqrtRem()`.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24898#discussion_r2205270772