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commit 99c627e57e5bb14ada31f33809aa62356bfbb7bd
Author: aherbert <aherbert@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 9 12:22:13 2020 +0100

    Document and test for overflow in BigFraction.pow(int)
---
 .../main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java | 1 +
 .../java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFractionTest.java  | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/commons-numbers-fraction/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java b/commons-numbers-fraction/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java
index ded343b..0d145fb 100644
--- a/commons-numbers-fraction/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java
+++ b/commons-numbers-fraction/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java
@@ -888,6 +888,7 @@ public final class BigFraction
      *
      * @param exponent exponent to which this {@code BigFraction} is to be raised.
      * @return <code>this<sup>exponent</sup></code>.
+     * @throws ArithmeticException if the intermediate result would overflow.
      */
     @Override
     public BigFraction pow(final int exponent) {
diff --git a/commons-numbers-fraction/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFractionTest.java b/commons-numbers-fraction/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFractionTest.java
index 1f0f52e..40dc9e9 100644
--- a/commons-numbers-fraction/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFractionTest.java
+++ b/commons-numbers-fraction/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFractionTest.java
@@ -641,6 +641,13 @@ public class BigFractionTest {
             assertFraction(testCase.expectedNumerator, testCase.expectedDenominator, f1.pow(exponent));
         }
 
+        // Note: BigInteger magnitude is limited to 2^Integer.MAX_VALUE exclusive
+        // in the reference implementation (up to at least JDK 14).
+        Assertions.assertThrows(ArithmeticException.class, () -> BigFraction.of(2).pow(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
+        Assertions.assertThrows(ArithmeticException.class, () -> BigFraction.of(1, 2).pow(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
+        Assertions.assertThrows(ArithmeticException.class, () -> BigFraction.of(2).pow(-Integer.MAX_VALUE));
+        Assertions.assertThrows(ArithmeticException.class, () -> BigFraction.of(1, 2).pow(-Integer.MAX_VALUE));
+
         Assertions.assertEquals(BigFraction.of(8192, 1594323), BigFraction.of(2, 3).pow(13));
         Assertions.assertEquals(BigFraction.of(8192, 1594323), BigFraction.of(2, 3).pow(13L));
         Assertions.assertEquals(BigFraction.of(8192, 1594323), BigFraction.of(2, 3).pow(BigInteger.valueOf(13L)));