Fwd: error in the example given for numeric data types

[Priyank Rajvansh <rajvansh.priyank@xxxxxxxxx>]

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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/datatype-numeric.html
Description:

article 8.1.2 states the following:

''We use the following terms below: The precision of a numeric is the total
count of significant digits in the whole number, that is, the number of
digits to both sides of the decimal point. The scale of a numeric is the
count of decimal digits in the fractional part, to the right of the decimal
point. So the number 23.5141 has a precision of 6 and a scale of 4. Integers
can be considered to have a scale of zero.''

however it also states the following towards the end:

'' For example, a column declared as

NUMERIC(3, 5)
will round values to 5 decimal places and can store values between -0.00999
and 0.00999, inclusive.''

Now from whatever i could decipher the syntax of the numeric data type is
NUMERIC(precision,scale) and if we write NUMERIC (3,5) it would mean that we
are trying to store a number which has 3 digits in total and 5 of them are
to the right of the decimal point, which doesn't make sense !
besides i tried running this in postgresql and the result was as follows:

practice=# create table t1(height numeric(3,5));
ERROR:  NUMERIC scale 5 must be between 0 and precision 3
LINE 1: create table t1(height numeric(3,5));
 Please look into the matter and kindly revert back to me whatever you find
out about this so that i can correct myself incase i misunderstood what the
document says...