JDK-8077587 : BigInteger Roots
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.math
  • Affected Version: 8u40
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: linux
  • CPU: x86_64
  • Submitted: 2015-04-11
  • Updated: 2015-04-13
  • Resolved: 2015-04-13
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Description
A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
It would be nice to be able to do nth or even simple square roots with BigInteger.

JUSTIFICATION :
There are many applications where finding the square root is appropriate. Certain factorization algorithms require such a feature, for example.



Comments
Closing this as a duplicate of JDK-8032027.
13-04-2015