I'm not sure, I have not tried to figure out why, but some places it seems like the limit hits around 95 chars.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:17 AM Nicolas VIGNERON <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The offical documentation is > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Data_type#quantity but indeed there is > no indication of the limit. > > From what I tested, apparently you can enter any number which is less than > 127 characters long (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189#P1104). > > Cheers, > ~nicolas > > Le lun. 7 oct. 2019 à 08:58, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Is there any documentation of the number format used by the quantity >> type? Bumped into this and had to implement the BCmath extension to handle >> the number. The reason why I did it (except it was fun) is to handle some >> weird unit conversions. By inspection I found there were numbers at >> Wikidata that clearly could not be implemented as doubles, and testing a >> little I found that this had to be implemented as some kind of big numbers. >> Lua does not have big numbers, and using the numbers from quantity as a >> plain number type is a coming disaster. >> >> So, is there any documentation for the quantity format anywhere? I have >> not found anything. I posted a task about it, and please add info there if >> you know where some info can be found. I suspect the format just happen to >> be the same as BC, and nobody really checked if the format was compatible, >> or…? >> >> The BCmath extension can be found at >> - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BCmath >> - https://github.com/jeblad/BCmath >> >> There is a Vagrant role if anyone likes to test it out. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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