[OASIS Issue Tracker] (ODATA-784) Need to specify the behaviour of arithmetic operators on Decimal type

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Evan Ireland commented on ODATA-784:
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If Scale(A) = 0 and Scale(B) = 0, then both operands are essentially integers.

This issue is important because a reasonable expectation in that case for (A div B) would be to expect integer division semantics (truncation, with the result having no fractional component).

The proposed rule scaleof(A div B) = scaleof(A) + scaleof(B)  would provide for integer division of integers.


> Need to specify the behaviour of arithmetic operators on Decimal type
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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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