[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (TEIID-159) Modify our handling of BigDecimal division to use MathContext.DECIMAL128 as our rounding mode to improve scale and precision of results
Steve Hawkins (JIRA)
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Tue Jun 29 17:13:47 EDT 2010
[ https://jira.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-159?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Steve Hawkins closed TEIID-159.
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> Modify our handling of BigDecimal division to use MathContext.DECIMAL128 as our rounding mode to improve scale and precision of results
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> Key: TEIID-159
> URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-159
> Project: Teiid
> Issue Type: Feature Request
> Components: Server
> Affects Versions: 6.0.0
> Reporter: Jerry Helbling
> Fix For: 7.0
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> Using MathContext.DECIMAL128 should give a more usable scale and precision to the results.
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> Current behavior
> 254403453878 / 21870000000 returns 12
> and
> 254403453878.0001 / 21870000000 returns 11.6325
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> Improved behavior:
> 254403453878 / 21870000000 returns 11.632531
> and
> 254403453878.0001 / 21870000000 returns 11.632531
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> We should also investigate what the impact of this change will be on users who may be relying on our current behavior.
> Reference: This enhancement was suggested by Issue Tracker Issue 175485, contributed by Greg Haber
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