require 'bigdecimal' describe :bigdecimal_power, shared: true do it "powers of self" do e3_minus = BigDecimal("3E-20001") e3_minus_power_2 = BigDecimal("9E-40002") e3_plus = BigDecimal("3E20001") e2_plus = BigDecimal("2E40001") e5_minus = BigDecimal("5E-40002") e = BigDecimal("1.00000000000000000000123456789") one = BigDecimal("1") ten = BigDecimal("10") # The tolerance is dependent upon the size of BASE_FIG tolerance = BigDecimal("1E-70") ten_powers = BigDecimal("1E10000") pi = BigDecimal("3.14159265358979") e3_minus.send(@method, 2).should == e3_minus_power_2 e3_plus.send(@method, 0).should == 1 e3_minus.send(@method, 1).should == e3_minus e2_plus.send(@method, -1).should == e5_minus e2_plus.send(@method, -1).should == e5_minus.power(1) (e2_plus.send(@method, -1) * e5_minus.send(@method, -1)).should == 1 e.send(@method, 2).should == e * e e.send(@method, -1).should be_close(one.div(e, 120), tolerance) ten.send(@method, 10000).should == ten_powers pi.send(@method, 10).should be_close(Math::PI ** 10, TOLERANCE) end it "powers of 1 equal 1" do one = BigDecimal("1") one.send(@method, 0).should == 1 one.send(@method, 1).should == 1 one.send(@method, 10).should == 1 one.send(@method, -10).should == 1 end it "0 to power of 0 is 1" do zero = BigDecimal("0") zero.send(@method, 0).should == 1 end it "0 to powers < 0 is Infinity" do zero = BigDecimal("0") infinity = BigDecimal("Infinity") zero.send(@method, -10).should == infinity zero.send(@method, -1).should == infinity end it "other powers of 0 are 0" do zero = BigDecimal("0") zero.send(@method, 1).should == 0 zero.send(@method, 10).should == 0 end it "returns NaN if self is NaN" do BigDecimal("NaN").send(@method, -5).should.nan? BigDecimal("NaN").send(@method, 5).should.nan? end it "returns 0.0 if self is infinite and argument is negative" do BigDecimal("Infinity").send(@method, -5).should == 0 BigDecimal("-Infinity").send(@method, -5).should == 0 end it "returns infinite if self is infinite and argument is positive" do infinity = BigDecimal("Infinity") BigDecimal("Infinity").send(@method, 4).should == infinity BigDecimal("-Infinity").send(@method, 4).should == infinity BigDecimal("Infinity").send(@method, 5).should == infinity BigDecimal("-Infinity").send(@method, 5).should == -infinity end end