SAP SCALE - Glossary

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scaling
Property of a decimal floating point number. A decimal floating point number can be seen as an integer number of a predefined length that is scaled by dividing through a power of ten. This defines the number of decimal places. In this sense, the negative exponent of a decimal floating point number is called scaling that applies to the mantissa. For positi ve scaling, it is equivalent to the number of decimal places. Decimal floating point numbers with the same value can have different scaling. Operations on decimal floating point numbers usually are given the scaling and thus the number of decimal places. One predefined function for changing the scaling is rescale. See also Precision.