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We have proto messages that ideally would contain a decimal as a part of the message. This proto file is being used by both a Java and a .NET client.
Since we cannot use decimal, what would the recommended approach be for passing these values?
How many significant digits?
If you know ahead of time, you could use a fixed-point representation, e.g. an integer which is treated as units of 10-6 or whatever is most appropriate.
If not, well, there’s string…