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36 changes: 36 additions & 0 deletions src/main/java/com/thealgorithms/maths/PowerOfFour.java
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package com.thealgorithms.maths;

/**
* Utility class for checking if a number is a power of four.
* A power of four is a number that can be expressed as 4^n where n is a non-negative integer.
* This class provides a method to determine if a given integer is a power of four using bit manipulation.
*
* @author krishna-medapati (https://github.com/krishna-medapati)
*/
public final class PowerOfFour {
private PowerOfFour() {
}

/**
* Checks if the given integer is a power of four.
*
* A number is considered a power of four if:
* 1. It is greater than zero
* 2. It has exactly one '1' bit in its binary representation (power of two)
* 3. The '1' bit is at an even position (0, 2, 4, 6, ...)
*
* The method uses the mask 0x55555555 (binary: 01010101010101010101010101010101)
* to check if the set bit is at an even position.
*
* @param number the integer to check
* @return true if the number is a power of four, false otherwise
*/
public static boolean isPowerOfFour(int number) {
if (number <= 0) {
return false;
}
boolean isPowerOfTwo = (number & (number - 1)) == 0;
boolean hasEvenBitPosition = (number & 0x55555555) != 0;
return isPowerOfTwo && hasEvenBitPosition;
}
}
36 changes: 36 additions & 0 deletions src/test/java/com/thealgorithms/maths/PowerOfFourTest.java
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package com.thealgorithms.maths;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class PowerOfFourTest {

@Test
void testPowersOfFour() {
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(1));
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(4));
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(16));
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(64));
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(256));
assertTrue(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(1024));
}

@Test
void testNonPowersOfFour() {
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(2));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(3));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(5));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(8));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(15));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(32));
}

@Test
void testEdgeCases() {
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(0));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(-1));
assertFalse(PowerOfFour.isPowerOfFour(-4));
}
}