Java Puzzle: Square Root

Re:Java Puzzle: Square Root by uvdiv on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @10:32PM (#5405236)

Force a race condition on the variable `root'.

    if (n.divide(root).equals(root)) {

Try to set it to 2^20001 on the first funcall and 0 on the second.

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Re:Java Puzzle: Square Root by mtpettyp on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @03:42PM (#5409673)

BigInteger is immutable so this won't work

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Re:Java Puzzle: Square Root by uvdiv on Friday March 22, 2013 @10:03PM (#5426944)

You're right! Good catch.

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