Hello Why there are no pow functions for Long an Int kotlinlang #stdlib

Hello! Why there are no pow functions for Long an ...

PHondogo

04/27/2021, 5:20 PM

Hello! Why there are no pow functions for Long an Int?

ephemient

04/27/2021, 6:09 PM

pow will overflow Int/Long very quickly, whereas Float/Double/BigInteger/BigDecimal it has a much wider range

ephemient

04/27/2021, 6:10 PM

arguably modPow could still be useful on Int/Long but that might be too specialized

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