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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Ray Rizzuto Jr <r.j.rizz...@ieee.org> wrote:

> Well, it might be as simple as how it is represented in .Net:
> http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Decimal.aspx
>
> Other languages might have different representation, and ranges, so
> whatever is chosen, there may be cases where the wire format can't be
> represented in the native type for a specific language.
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:34 PM Adam Cozzette <acozze...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> A decimal type sounds like potentially a good candidate for becoming a 
>> well-known
>> type
>> <https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/google.protobuf>
>> with a custom JSON representation. There's a StackOverflow discussion
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371604/whats-the-best-way-to-represent-system-decimal-in-protocol-buffers>
>> about representing decimals in protocol buffers from way back in 2008 so it
>> sounds like this a problem that people have been running into for a while.
>> Do you have any thoughts on what it would look like? Maybe the most
>> important thing would be to make sure it plays well with the decimal types
>> used in various languages.
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Raymond Rizzuto <ray.rizz...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an extension mechanism that could be used to support Decimal
>>> (handy for financial data) via JSON in protobuf 3?  Or in a future
>>> version?  I know I could come up with some representation specific to my
>>> application, but that seems somewhat shortsighted.
>>>
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