Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> added the comment:
> I'm also assuming that Decimal(0) sets both base and exponent to 0.
No, 0 is really special in the IBM specification. The magnitude is
kept, the precision is not.
>>> Decimal("0e10") * Decimal("0e20")
Decimal('0E+30')
>>> Decimal("0.000e10")
Decimal('0E+7')
So we're basically doing the reverse of the above in formatting when a
precision is given.
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