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

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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-11665:
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[~ARF1] thanks for opening the issue. I have wondered about this in the past as well, so I agree it would be good to add some more explanation about this to the documentation.

cc [~apitrou]

> [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
>            Priority: Minor
>
> 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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