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Evan Ireland commented on ODATA-784:
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Since decimals are frequently used to avoid problems with rounding, it is best to avoid unexpected behaviour.
Suppose an implementation has maximum precision of 5 (just for the purpose of example, rathe it might be 28/29/34/36 etc).
Now consider 1.0 div 3. Is it 0.3 (my proposal) or 0.33333 ("sufficient scale").
In regard to a filter, (A div 3) gt 0.3. Is it true or false when A = 1.0?
Rounding rules need to be highly predictable with decimal.
> Need to specify the behaviour of arithmetic operators on Decimal type
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> Key: ODATA-784
> URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/ODATA-784
> Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: OData URL Conventions
> Affects Versions: V4.0_OS
> Reporter: Evan Ireland
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: V4.0_ERRATA03
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> The rules for scale of results of decimal arithmetic operators are not specified.
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