[Bug 2849] RQ-150 Problems with minimum number of digits for decimal (Minimum-number-of-digits-for-decimal)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2849

           Summary: RQ-150 Problems with minimum number of digits for
                    decimal (Minimum-number-of-digits-for-decimal)
           Product: XML Schema
           Version: 1.1 only
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: resolved
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Datatypes: XSD Part 2
        AssignedTo: cmsmcq@w3.org
        ReportedBy: cmsmcq@w3.org
         QAContact: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org


This issue was originally reported by John Tebbutt and Ashok Malhotra.

John Tebbutt: (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Dec/0025.html)
Ashok Malhotra: (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Dec/0027.html)

  * If an implementation strictly implements a 18 digit decimal
    facility, it cannot accomodate long which requires 20 digits.

  * 18 decimal digits cannot be accommodated in 64 bits.

This item was discussed in the meetings of 
2003-10-30
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Nov/0004.html),
2003-10-31
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Nov/0006.html),
2003-11-04
(http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2003/11/xml-schema-ftf-minutes.html)m
2003-12-18
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Dec/0060.html),
and 2003-12-19
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Dec/0064.html).

This item was classified as requirement and discussed, and phase-1
agreement was reached, in the meeting of 2004-04-08
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2004Apr/0130.html).

This requirement has been discharged by reducing the required precision
for decimal to 16 digits, and by making the minimum implementation
requirements more precise in various ways.  See also bug 1918 and bug 1919.

Received on Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:42:44 UTC