On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:49:30 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I'm also wondering if we should restrict n to |n| ≤ 999'999'999, as in pow(). 
> This would allow users of BigDecimal to implement corrective actions, as in 
> the schema above, by themselves.

The pow limit was a carry-over some another language environment where an 
earlier version of this decimal support for implemented. I don't regard it as a 
strong precedent for us to follow here is we can have a very-wide range of n 
without much difficulty.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27148#issuecomment-3449531255

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