On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:26:42 GMT, fabioromano1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> @fabioromano1 I think it is OK to have more efficient code even if the >> result is not correctly rounded. >> Please add some code comment about your error analysis. > > @rgiulietti >> * How much code would be needed to attain correct rounding in all modes? > > I found a way to make the procedure for correct rounding deterministic, but > it would complicate the code a lot, and of course it would be potentially > expensive in terms of running time, since the number of additional digits to > compute is finite but not bounded by a constant. So, if it were to be > implemented, I think the choice to have a correct rounding should be left to > the user. > @fabioromano1 Shall I file a name change for the `BigInteger` nth root, or > would you prefer to do that yourself? I'm fine with both variants. I'm fine if you do that. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27148#issuecomment-3438810920
