[loldot_]

The simple, readable, loop-based snippet mentioned in the article also works for the edge cases. Sometimes it's better to not be so clever.

[Diggsey]

No, it doesn't. It has the exact same rounding bug described in the article.

The article even mentions:

> FWIW, all 22 answers posted, including the ones using Apache Commons and Android libraries, had this bug (or a variation of it) at the time of writing.

[jandrese]

That seems a bit confusing given how the loop works.

999,999 shouldn't be big enough to be affected by floating point rounding.

If the comment is correct then Java will evaluate ( 999999 >= 1000000 ) as true, which simply cannot be correct.

[Ragib_Zaman]

And the pow and log methods they call run loops anyway. What is wrong with loops anyway?

[Recursing]

> the pow and log methods they call run loops anyway.

That's actually not true (as somebody mentioned on reddit) https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk/blob/jdk8u/jdk8u/maste...

It is probably slower anyway, but I was surprised to see no loops