[omniORB] bug in CORBA::Fixed constructor

[Luke Deller]

...
> > >>> from decimal import Decimal
> > >>> Decimal("1.10")*Decimal("1.10")
> > >>> Decimal("1.2100")
> >
> > So apparently maintaining trailing zeros through arithmetic like
this
> > makes sense to some people.  Personally I can't see the use of this
> > behaviour in arithmetic so I'm not going to argue with you that it
> > makes sense :-)

> Here are a few reasons:
> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decifaq1.html#tzeros

That's a nice link.  I'm still unable to argue why 1.10*1.10 should
be 1.2100 rather than 1.21, except by appealing to efficiency
(which is the last point on the list at your link).  The extra precision
in the product is not required to express precision of measurement,
because the measurement was only precise to three significant figures,
not five.  In other examples (such as 1.11*1.11), the product needs
extra precision than the multiplicands if we want to avoid rounding,
but this is not the case for 1.10*1.10.

Luke.

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