Github user JPercivall commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/310#issuecomment-202964957
The reason I broke out the Decimal functions for math functions is to not
force users to use a specific return value.
For the logical math functions (greater than, etc.) I couldn't figure out
how to parse the incoming values if they were passed in as strings. Since
almost all attributes will be passed in as strings I couldn't make an
assumption on whether to interpret them as longs or doubles.
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