Reimplement pow function for integer exponent. (#638)

* Reimplement checked_powu.

* Add pow tests.

* Add short-cuts to powu.

* Fix x.powu(0)

* Refine powu implementation.

* Exclude a failing test that was caused by the deprecated legacy-ops feature

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Co-authored-by: Paul Mason <paul@paulmason.me>

.gitignore

@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ Cargo.lock
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+.vscode/settings.json

src/maths.rs

@@ -227,33 +227,40 @@ impl MathematicalOps for Decimal {
     }
 
     fn checked_powu(&self, exp: u64) -> Option<Decimal> {
+        if exp == 0 {
+            return Some(Decimal::ONE);
+        }
+        if self.is_zero() {
+            return Some(Decimal::ZERO);
+        }
+        if self.is_one() {
+            return Some(Decimal::ONE);
+        }
+
         match exp {
-            0 => Some(Decimal::ONE),
+            0 => unreachable!(),
             1 => Some(*self),
             2 => self.checked_mul(*self),
+            // Do the exponentiation by multiplying squares:
+            //   y = Sum (for each 1 bit in binary representation) of (2 ^ bit)
+            //   x ^ y = Sum (for each 1 bit in y) of (x ^ (2 ^ bit))
+            // See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation_by_squaring
             _ => {
-                // Get the squared value
-                let squared = match self.checked_mul(*self) {
-                    Some(s) => s,
-                    None => return None,
-                };
-                // Square self once and make an infinite sized iterator of the square.
-                let iter = core::iter::repeat(squared);
-
-                // We then take half of the exponent to create a finite iterator and then multiply those together.
                 let mut product = Decimal::ONE;
-                for x in iter.take((exp >> 1) as usize) {
-                    match product.checked_mul(x) {
-                        Some(r) => product = r,
-                        None => return None,
-                    };
-                }
-
-                // If the exponent is odd we still need to multiply once more
-                if exp & 0x1 > 0 {
-                    match self.checked_mul(product) {
-                        Some(p) => product = p,
-                        None => return None,
+                let mut mask = exp;
+                let mut power = *self;
+
+                // Run through just enough 1 bits
+                for n in 0..(64 - exp.leading_zeros()) {
+                    if n > 0 {
+                        power = power.checked_mul(power)?;
+                        mask >>= 1;
+                    }
+                    if mask & 0x01 > 0 {
+                        match product.checked_mul(power) {
+                            Some(r) => product = r,
+                            None => return None,
+                        };
                     }
                 }
                 product.normalize_assign();

tests/decimal_tests.rs

@@ -3693,6 +3693,8 @@ mod maths {
             ("0.1", 0_u64, "1"),
             ("342.4", 1_u64, "342.4"),
             ("2.0", 16_u64, "65536"),
+            ("0.99999999999999", 1477289400_u64, "0.9999852272151186611602884841"),
+            ("0.99999999999999", 0x8000_8000_0000_0000, "0"),
         ];
         for &(x, y, expected) in test_cases {
             let x = Decimal::from_str(x).unwrap();
@@ -3829,6 +3831,7 @@ mod maths {
                 "0.1234567890123456789012345678",
                 either!("0.0003533642875741443321850682", "0.0003305188683169079961720764"),
             ),
+            ("0.99999999999999", "1477289400", "0.9999852272151186611602884841"),
         ];
         for &(x, y, expected) in test_cases {
             let x = Decimal::from_str(x).unwrap();
@@ -3965,43 +3968,28 @@ mod maths {
     }
 
     #[test]
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "legacy-ops"))]
     fn test_norm_cdf() {
         let test_cases = &[
             (
                 Decimal::from_str("-0.4").unwrap(),
-                either!(
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.3445781286821245037094401704").unwrap(),
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.3445781286821245037094401728").unwrap()
-                ),
+                Decimal::from_str("0.3445781286821245037094401704").unwrap(),
             ),
             (
                 Decimal::from_str("-0.1").unwrap(),
-                either!(
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.4601722899186706579921922696").unwrap(),
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.4601722899186706579921922711").unwrap()
-                ),
+                Decimal::from_str("0.4601722899186706579921922696").unwrap(),
             ),
             (
                 Decimal::from_str("0.1").unwrap(),
-                Decimal::from_str(either!(
-                    "0.5398277100813293420078077304",
-                    "0.5398277100813293420078077290"
-                ))
-                .unwrap(),
+                Decimal::from_str("0.5398277100813293420078077304").unwrap(),
             ),
             (
                 Decimal::from_str("0.4").unwrap(),
-                either!(
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.6554218713178754962905598296").unwrap(),
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.6554218713178754962905598272").unwrap()
-                ),
+                Decimal::from_str("0.6554218713178754962905598296").unwrap(),
             ),
             (
                 Decimal::from_str("2.0").unwrap(),
-                either!(
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.9772497381095865280953380673").unwrap(),
-                    Decimal::from_str("0.9772497381095865280953380672").unwrap()
-                ),
+                Decimal::from_str("0.9772497381095865280953380673").unwrap(),
             ),
         ];
         for case in test_cases {