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Alan Gates commented on PIG-2764:
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I'm +1 with going with BigNumber. There's no reason to spin our own
implementation for only a small speed up. That only makes sense if you can
significantly improve it.
> Add a biginteger and bigdecimal type to pig
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> Key: PIG-2764
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2764
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
> Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
> Attachments: fixedpoint.patch, PIG-2764-0.patch, PIG-2764-1.patch,
> PIG-2764-2_nows.patch, PIG-2764-2.patch
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> I think it would be useful for applications where precision is more important
> than speed to have the option of using java's bigdecimal and biginteger types
> natively.
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