aherbert commented on a change in pull request #83:
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-numbers/pull/83#discussion_r476716184



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File path: 
commons-numbers-fraction/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/numbers/fraction/BigFraction.java
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@@ -966,23 +966,39 @@ public BigFraction divide(final BigFraction value) {
      */
     @Override
     public BigFraction pow(final int exponent) {
+        if (exponent == 1) {
+            return this;
+        }
         if (exponent == 0) {
             return ONE;
         }
         if (isZero()) {
+            if (exponent < 0) {
+                throw new 
FractionException(FractionException.ERROR_ZERO_DENOMINATOR);
+            }
             return ZERO;
         }
-
+        if (exponent > 0) {
+            return new BigFraction(this.numerator.pow(exponent),
+                    this.denominator.pow(exponent));
+        }
+        if (exponent == -1) {
+            return this.reciprocal();
+        }
+        if (exponent == Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
+            // MIN_VALUE can't be negated
+            final int temp = exponent / 2;
+            final BigInteger newDenominator = denominator.pow(-temp);
+            final BigInteger newNumerator = numerator.pow(-temp);
+            return new BigFraction(newDenominator.multiply(newDenominator),

Review comment:
       It will throw an `ArithmeticException`. This is the same as the code for 
the positive exponent just with the numerator and denominator reversed.




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