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Default `decimal` parser rounds to tenth of a degree Celsius. For users converting to Fahrenheit, the full 1000'ths precision can be used and the rounding done after conversion. For example 19.250 C would be rounded to 19.3 C. If converted to F there is a 0.1 degree difference between these values, which may be significant depending on the application.
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preciseDecimalparser that returns the un-rounded value from the temp probe.For my application, I intend to convert to Fahrenheit. I noticed that the decimal parser would round a value of 19.250 to 19.3. If converting to F, 19.250 => 66.65, and 19.3 => 66.74. This is almost a 0.1 degree difference due to rounding. A more precise conversion would be yielded from converting the full 19.250 precision number to F first, then perform rounding to the nearest tenth of a degree.