Number field

In our projects we often find that we would benefit from adding a Number field type to the items we use. This field would take decimal numbers (integer and non-integer) as input, similar to the existing Integer field type that requires the input to be an Integer. Ideally, the values from the field could be used as the source for Calculated fields to sum and multiply (or calculate average).
As a workaround we use simple text fields, but this workaround is prone to human input error - inputing invalid value (not a number). Issues often come up with round-trip export-import to Excel, with BIRT and Velocity reports that use the field for calculations and also creates hiccups from time to time for integration with JIRA and TFS that have a number field on the other side.
Please let me know if something like this is planned and whether there are any considerations that prevent creating such a field type!

Thanks!

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