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malachite_nz/integer/arithmetic/
canonical_unit_i_pow.rs

1// Copyright © 2026 Mikhail Hogrefe
2//
3// This file is part of Malachite.
4//
5// Malachite is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
6// Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
7// 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
8
9use crate::integer::Integer;
10use malachite_base::num::arithmetic::traits::CanonicalUnitIPow;
11
12impl CanonicalUnitIPow for Integer {
13    /// Finds the power of $i$ that brings a [`Integer`] into canonical unit form. The canonical
14    /// unit form of an [`Integer`] is its absolute value, so this is 2 for negative values, since
15    /// $x i^2 = -x$, and 0 otherwise.
16    ///
17    /// # Worst-case complexity
18    /// Constant time and additional memory.
19    ///
20    /// # Examples
21    /// ```
22    /// use malachite_base::num::arithmetic::traits::CanonicalUnitIPow;
23    /// use malachite_nz::integer::Integer;
24    ///
25    /// assert_eq!(Integer::from(123).canonical_unit_i_pow(), 0);
26    /// assert_eq!(Integer::from(-123).canonical_unit_i_pow(), 2);
27    /// ```
28    #[inline]
29    fn canonical_unit_i_pow(&self) -> u64 {
30        if *self < 0u32 { 2 } else { 0 }
31    }
32}