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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# Test broot function (and bsqrt() function, since it is used by broot()).
+
+# It is too slow to be simple included in bigfltpm.inc, where it would get
+# executed 3 times.
+
+# But it is better to test the numerical functionality, instead of not testing
+# it at all.
+
+use Test::More;
+use strict;
+
+BEGIN
+ {
+ $| = 1;
+ # to locate the testing files
+ my $location = $0; $location =~ s/bigroot.t//i;
+ if ($ENV{PERL_CORE})
+ {
+ # testing with the core distribution
+ @INC = qw(../lib);
+ }
+ unshift @INC, '../lib';
+ if (-d 't')
+ {
+ chdir 't';
+ require File::Spec;
+ unshift @INC, File::Spec->catdir(File::Spec->updir, $location);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ unshift @INC, $location;
+ }
+ print "# INC = @INC\n";
+
+ plan tests => 8 * 2;
+ }
+
+use Math::BigFloat;
+use Math::BigInt;
+
+my $cl = "Math::BigFloat";
+my $c = "Math::BigInt";
+
+# 2 ** 240 =
+# 1766847064778384329583297500742918515827483896875618958121606201292619776
+
+test_broot ('2','240', 8, undef, '1073741824');
+test_broot ('2','240', 9, undef, '106528681.3099908308759836475139583940127');
+test_broot ('2','120', 9, undef, '10321.27324073880096577298929482324664787');
+test_broot ('2','120', 17, undef, '133.3268493632747279600707813049418888729');
+
+test_broot ('2','120', 8, undef, '32768');
+test_broot ('2','60', 8, undef, '181.0193359837561662466161566988413540569');
+test_broot ('2','60', 9, undef, '101.5936673259647663841091609134277286651');
+test_broot ('2','60', 17, undef, '11.54672461623965153271017217302844672562');
+
+sub test_broot
+ {
+ my ($x,$n,$y,$scale,$result) = @_;
+
+ my $s = $scale || 'undef';
+ is ($cl->new($x)->bpow($n)->broot($y,$scale),$result, "Try: $cl $x->bpow($n)->broot($y,$s) == $result");
+ $result =~ s/\..*//;
+ is ($c->new($x)->bpow($n)->broot($y,$scale),$result, "Try: $c $x->bpow($n)->broot($y,$s) == $result");
+ }
+