FlowMetricPrecision
This textual convention denotes the precision or accuracy of a fixed-point value. A MIB module may abstract a fixed-point value by defining three objects together: 1) A FlowMetricScale object, which indicates the scale of the value. 2) A FlowMetricPrecision object, which indicates the precision of the value. In the case that the value has a fractional portion, this object indicates the number of digits comprising the fractional portion. 3) A FlowMetricValue object, which indicates the value before scaling. If an instance of an object of this type has a value in the range of 1 to 9, then it represents the precision of the associated value; that is, the number of decimal places in the fractional part of the associated value. For example, if the Media Loss Rate (MLR) computed for a traffic flow is 350.9E-6, then the FlowMetricScale object is 'micro', the FlowMetricPrecision object is 1, and the object indicating the value is 3509. If an instance of an object of this type has a value in the range of -8 to -1, then it represents the number of accurate digits in the associated value. For example, if the jitter measured for a traffic flow can range between -100,000 and 100,000 microseconds in 10 microsecond increments, with an accuracy of +/- 5 microseconds, the FlowMetricScale object is 'micro', the FlowMetricPrecision object is -2, and the object indicating the value has range of -100,000 to 100,000.