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Phillip Cloud updated ARROW-2177:
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Description: Allowing both negative and positive scale makes it ambiguous
what the scale of a number should be when it using exponential notation, e.g.,
{{0.01E3}}. Should that have a precision of 2 and a scale of 2 since it's
specified as 2 points to the right of the decimal and it evaluates to 10? Or a
precision of 1 and a scale of -1?
> [C++] Remove support for specifying negative scale values in DecimalType
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> Key: ARROW-2177
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2177
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++, Python
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Phillip Cloud
> Assignee: Phillip Cloud
> Priority: Major
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> Allowing both negative and positive scale makes it ambiguous what the scale
> of a number should be when it using exponential notation, e.g., {{0.01E3}}.
> Should that have a precision of 2 and a scale of 2 since it's specified as 2
> points to the right of the decimal and it evaluates to 10? Or a precision of
> 1 and a scale of -1?
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