[Python-Dev] Re: Decimal data type issues (original) (raw)

Batista, Facundo FBatista at uniFON.com.ar
Fri Apr 16 11:33:38 EDT 2004

[Kevin Jacobs] #- Don't forget that many financial applications use fixed scale and #- precision as #- their primary mechanism for specifying Decimal types. As such, it #- would be very nice to have a constructor that took a literal #- representation #- as well as scale and precision. While using context is

What is "fixed scale"?

Could you provide examples of the functionality that you're asking for? Thanks.

. Facundo

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