On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:44:42 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulie...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Curiously, this one runs in a fraction of a second on the current > implementation, but not on the proposed one: > `BigDecimal.valueOf(100).sqrt(new MathContext(1_000_000, > RoundingMode.HALF_EVEN)).shortValue()` @rgiulietti This is because, in the current implementation, the check for even powers of 10 is always done, while in mine is done only if exact result is required. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21301#issuecomment-2389131197
