#23935: DecimalField in admin can show up as Scientific Notation
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     Reporter:  xblitz         |      Owner:  nobody
         Type:  Bug            |     Status:  new
    Component:  contrib.admin  |    Version:  1.7
     Severity:  Normal         |   Keywords:  DecimalField admin
 Triage Stage:  Unreviewed     |  Has patch:  1
Easy pickings:  1              |      UI/UX:  0
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 In the django admin, if a DecimalField's value is lower than 0.000001
 displays as Scientific Notation (ex: 1E-7) since python Decimals converts
 automatically to a scientific notation (exponential)  ex:
 Decimal("0.0000001") = Decimal('1E-7')

 this is mostly visible when using Postgresql since DecimalFields with a
 value of 0 are saved with the decimal precision higher than 6 , ex:
 0.00000000 then in the admin instead of seeing 0 or 0.00000000 it is
 displayed as 0E-8

 the bug can be fixed by converting the Decimal to a fixed point value in
 admin/utils.py:

 @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ def display_for_field(value, field):
      elif isinstance(field, (models.DateField, models.TimeField)):
          return formats.localize(value)
      elif isinstance(field, models.DecimalField):
 -        return formats.number_format(value, field.decimal_places)
 +        return formats.number_format(format(value, "f"),
 field.decimal_places)
      elif isinstance(field, models.FloatField):
          return formats.number_format(value)
      else:

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23935>
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