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The question is WHY? Because decimal types are barely second class citizens across the stack. Is similar with dates.
Bad defaults are bad, and requiere stupid amounts of workarounds.
And just because excel do it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft...
Excel is amalgamation of surprises that are not fixed.And when you put the CORRECT results, the users demand that we give the same wrong results as excel!
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The question is WHY? Because decimal types are barely second class citizens across the stack. Is similar with dates.
Bad defaults are bad, and requiere stupid amounts of workarounds.
And just because excel do it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft...
Excel is amalgamation of surprises that are not fixed.And when you put the CORRECT results, the users demand that we give the same wrong results as excel!