trailing zero in Decimal

Sorry for any inconvenience, Ryan!

 

I will improve in the future. :-)

BTW: any comments to my original question?

 

regards,

George

I have to ask this question, and I am sorry if I offend you.

When you are reading articles from the MSDN(or wherever you read them from), do you really look for a grouping of words that you don't understand, and then come to a forum and ask what those specific words mean?  I've seen you do it on multiple forums now(you actually post all of these same questions on multiple forums), and I am just wondering.  You are given an answer that explains the entire paragraph, but then you pick out 4 words that you don't understand?

Sorry I have no idea =D

Thanks Jan!

 

How about this point of my question?

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Your samples pretty well demonstrate what means "preserves any trailing zeroes", but I am confused about what means "scaling factor also preserves" here?

BTW: I have the background of how Decimal and float are stored internally, but I do not know how could we utilize scale (I think it is the exponent) to preserve zero?

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regards,

George

ToString("#.0000") just converts and rounds your numeric value to the nearest 4 decimal places (returned as string).


double x = 45;
Console.WriteLine(x.ToString("#.0000")); // = 45.0000

x = 35.001;
Console.WriteLine(x.ToString("#.0000")); // = 35.0010

x = 39.12399;
Console.WriteLine(x.ToString("#.0000")); // = 39.1240

x = 39.12394;
Console.WriteLine(x.ToString("#.0000")); // = 39.1239

x = 39.9999;
Console.WriteLine(x.ToString("#.0000")); // = 39.9999

Thanks Mike!

 

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Your samples pretty well demonstrate what means "preserves any trailing zeroes", but I am confused about what means "scaling factor also preserves" here?

BTW: I have the background of how Decimal and float are stored internally, but I do not know how could we utilize scale (I think it is the exponent) to preserve zero?

 

2.

 

Could you show me how to use "#.0000" format please? I have tested "#.####" works, but how to use "#.0000"?

 

regards,
George

I assume it means

1.960000  or 2.0000 where 0000 are the trailing 0's, but don't quote me.  This becomes significant if you are using ToString  "#.0000" format to display the floating point our double number.