BigDecimal to the power of BigDecimal on Java/Android

Question

I have a simple BigDecimal that I want to power to another BigDecimal, for example 11.11^-1.54. What would be the neatest way to do it in Java/Android? I don\'t like the ide

Answer 1

A utility class for BigDecimal https://github.com/tareknaj/BigFunctions

Example for z = x^y --> z = exp ( ln(x) * y )

final int SCALE = 10;
BigDecimal x = new BigDecimal(1);
BigDecimal y = new BigDecimal(12);

BigDecimal z = BigFunctions.exp( BigFunctions.ln(x, SCALE).multiply(y),SCALE );