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Re: BigInteger.modInverse() fix

Raif S. Naffah wrote:

Not necessarirly.  I don't think canonicaliztion of small
integers is required for correctness, just (space) effiency...
...and speed, for some numerical algorithms where modulo 2**32 is enough.
canonicalize "in place" (i.e. ignoring the looking in smallFixNums
still converts the 1-word integers to use just the 'ival' field
without the 'words' array.  The issue is whether the input
BigInteger, after "normalization-in-place" is replace by the
equivalent BigInteger in the smallFixNums array.  The later
wouldn't change the algorithms used, just the identity of the
objects used.
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