On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:23:48 GMT, fabioromano1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For n > 0 the spec speaks about 0.5 ulp and 1 ulp, but not about correct >> rounding, which is slightly more restrictive, as it includes a direction >> (up, down, to-even, etc.). >> If the implementation already returns the correctly rounded result when n > >> 0, then the spec could be more precise. > >> For n > 0 the spec speaks about 0.5 ulp and 1 ulp, but not about correct >> rounding, which is slightly more restrictive, as it includes a direction >> (up, down, to-even, etc.). > > The statement "with rounding according to the context settings" together with > the errors 0.5 ulp and 1 ulp seem to imply a correct rounding, am I wrong? @fabioromano1 FYI, the renaming of `nthRoot`* to `rootn`* in `BigInteger` (and `MutableBigInteger`) has just been integrated. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27148#issuecomment-3450049782
