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decimal vs double! – Which one should I use and when? [duplicate]

April 16, 2022 by IT Nursery

This question already has answers here: When should I use double instead of decimal? (12 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I keep seeing people using doubles in C#. I know I read somewhere that doubles sometimes lose precision. My question is when should a use a double and when should I use a decimal type? … Read more

Limiting floats to two decimal points

April 7, 2022 by IT Nursery

I want a to be rounded to 13.95. I tried using round: >>> a 13.949999999999999 >>> round(a, 2) 13.949999999999999 3 32 You are running into the old problem with floating point numbers that not all numbers can be represented exactly. The command line is just showing you the full floating point form from memory. With … Read more