From 21ba3e4b3149465f3367f0c504882cab172dda52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Le Riche <7701190+p-leriche@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:26:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor to use BigIntUtils for parseBigInt function

---
 src/core/operations/ModularExponentiation.mjs | 13 +------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/operations/ModularExponentiation.mjs b/src/core/operations/ModularExponentiation.mjs
index 43898d86..64a3bf74 100644
--- a/src/core/operations/ModularExponentiation.mjs
+++ b/src/core/operations/ModularExponentiation.mjs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import Operation from "../Operation.mjs";
 import OperationError from "../errors/OperationError.mjs";
+import { parseBigInt } from "../lib/BigIntUtils.mjs";
 
 /* ---------- helper functions ---------- */
 
@@ -27,18 +28,6 @@ function modPow(base, exponent, modulus) {
     return result;
 }
 
-/**
- * parseBigInt helper operation
- */
-function parseBigInt(value, param) {
-    const v = value.trim();
-
-    if (/^0x[0-9a-f]+$/i.test(v)) return BigInt(v);
-    if (/^[0-9]+$/.test(v)) return BigInt(v);
-
-    throw new OperationError(param + " must be decimal or hex (0x...)");
-}
-
 /* ---------- operation class ---------- */