brick/math 0.8.8

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🐛 Bug fixes

• BigInteger::toBase() could return an empty string for zero values (BCMath & Native calculators only, GMP calculator unaffected)

✨ New features

• BigInteger::toArbitraryBase() converts a number to an arbitrary base, using a custom alphabet
• BigInteger::fromArbitraryBase() converts a string in an arbitrary base, using a custom alphabet, back to a number

These methods can be used as the foundation to convert strings between different bases/alphabets, using BigInteger as an intermediate representation.

💩 Deprecations

• BigInteger::parse() is now deprecated in favour of fromBase()

BigInteger::fromBase() works the same way as parse(), with 2 minor differences:

• the $base parameter is required, it does not default to 10
• it throws a NumberFormatException instead of an InvalidArgumentException when the number is malformed