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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11531 --- Comment #4 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> 2010-12-11 18:04:14 UTC --- Indeed. So what we're actually saying is that P is the position of the least significant digit relative to the decimal point, counting towards the right, with the digit immediately before the decimal point being numbered zero. The question is what to call this quantity. Currently the XSD spec has three names for it: scale, arithmeticPrecision, and precision. I'm advocating we should call it scale, because (a) we use that in the concrete syntax (in the facets minScale and maxScale), and we don't want to change the concrete syntax, and (b) because the IEEE spec uses the word "precision" to mean something completely different, which makes things very confusing for someone who is reading both specs, and will also make life very difficult for authors of other specifications (such as XPath functions and operators) that will need to refer to both. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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