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Author	josh.r
Recipients	Devin Jeanpierre, ezio.melotti, facundobatista, josh.r, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
Date	2015-01-09.03:33:28
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Message-id	<1420774409.05.0.156766258662.issue23201@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Intentional, but really hard to justify from a consistency perspective. There appear to be several reasonable arguments to treat it as 1 regardless of the mathematical impurity ( https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10005.3-5.shtml ), and since we clearly accept that for int and float, it seems reasonable to extend it to Decimal.

Intentional, but really hard to justify from a consistency perspective. There appear to be several reasonable arguments to treat it as 1 regardless of the mathematical impurity ( https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10005.3-5.shtml ), and since we clearly accept that for int and float, it seems reasonable to extend it to Decimal.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-01-09 03:33:29	josh.r	set	recipients: + josh.r, rhettinger, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, Devin Jeanpierre, ezio.melotti, skrah
2015-01-09 03:33:29	josh.r	set	messageid: <1420774409.05.0.156766258662.issue23201@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2015-01-09 03:33:28	josh.r	create