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[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-11665) [Python] Document precision and scale parameters of decimal128()

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11665?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Antoine Pitrou reassigned ARROW-11665:
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    Assignee: Antoine Pitrou

> [Python] Document precision and scale parameters of decimal128()
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>                 Key: ARROW-11665
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11665
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation, Python
>            Reporter: ARF
>            Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.0.0
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> In pyarrow, the {{decimal128()}} factory takes two parameters, {{precision}} and {{scale}}.
> It is unclear to me, what these parameters are and how to use them. Unfortunately, the wikipedia entry for Decimal128 does not help either.



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