[MATH-1050] Deprecate "pow(int, long)" and "pow(long,long)" in "ArithmeticUtils"

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2
• Fix Version/s: 4.0
• Labels: API deprecation
• Assignee: Gilles Sadowski
• Reporter: Gilles Sadowski
• Created: 30/Oct/13 12:43
• Updated: 16/Feb/15 23:14
• Resolved: 16/Feb/15 23:14

Description

Those two methods uses a "long" for the exponent, but overflow will occur when the exponent is larger than 31 (except for the trivial case where the base is 1).

See also this thread on the dev ML.