refactor: remove intermediate decimal and move decimal into PoSQL parser crate

[Dustin-Ray]

Background and Motivation

Currently, the code handling decimal parsing and conversions is somewhat scattered. This issue seeks to resolve this by using the bigdecimal::BigDecimal type for as much as possible.

Important Note: the BigDecimal type does not trim leading and trailing zeros. Care should be taken when dealing with this.

Requested Changes

To resolve this issue, we should:

• Add a BigDecimalExt extension trait in the proof_of_sql::base::math module. It should have, at minimum,
  • precision and scale methods akin to the existing IntermediateDecimal::precision and IntermediateDecimal::scale methods. NOTE: the precision and scale should be the values after trimming any leading and trailing zeros. This is what the current implementation (implicitly) does.
  • a try_into_scalar_with_precision_and_scale method akin to the exiting try_into_to_scalar function.
• Eliminate the proof_of_sql_parser::intermediate_decimal::IntermediateDecimal and proof_of_sql::base::math::decimal::Decimal types, in favor of using bigdecimal::BigDecimal along with the BigDecimalExt extension trait.

Optional:

• Other refactoring and/or cleanup is welcome, but not immediately clear to me what should be done. These likely should be done in a follow up PR/issue. Some possibilities are:
  • It is not clear if the DecimalError enum is needed or if bigdecimal::ParseBigDecimalError or similar is sufficient.
  • The scale_scalar function should likely be moved into the proof_of_sql::base::scalar module.

[JayWhite2357]

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