jeblad added a comment.
I believe I've said this data type is wrong a few times (!) back at WMDE. It tries to both be a representation for a scalar datatype with a precision, and a range datatype. It fails badly at both. Split the datatype in a scalar type and a range type, both with precision, or use a bignum representation of the numbers. If this is to be kept like this, then make it possible to use the value both as a scalar and range datatype, with an explicit precision. The precision should not say anything about the uncertainty of the numbers. That is orecision and uncertainty is two different concepts. For measurements with uncertainty either make representations of three-point estimation, five-number summary, and seven-number summary, or add an explicit extension of the value for uncertainty. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68580 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jeblad Cc: jeblad, mgrabovsky, Ricordisamoa, Tobias1984, Aklapper, Jc3s5h, Denny, Stryn, Mbch331, Sjoerddebruin, AmaryllisGardener, Izno, Smalyshev, kaldari, Gareth, Ayack, geraki, Bugreporter, DSGalaktos, Wikidata-bugs, SPQRobin, jayvdb, Snaterlicious, Liuxinyu970226, Lydia_Pintscher, daniel, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, aude
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