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  2. JDK-8266578

Disambiguate BigDecimal description of scale

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • P4
    • 18
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    • core-libs
    • b06

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      The API Docs for BigDecimal introduce the meaning of scale. The current verbiage can be misleading when presenting the meaning of a scale value that's negative.

      The ambiguity is in this sentence:

          If negative, the unscaled value of the number is ...

      which could be replaced with the slightly more verbose:

          If the scale is negative, the unscaled value of the number is ...

      To keep symmetry, also revise the positive case from:

          If zero or positive, the scale is the number of digits ...

      to:

          If the scale is zero or positive, the scale is the number of digits ...

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              bpb Brian Burkhalter
              bpb Brian Burkhalter
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