Re: Divide by Zero

A nice side effect of this approximation is that the two outputs of the
following example differ.
Awesome! :)

decimal d = 0m;
float f = 0f;

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    d += 0.1m;
    f += 0.1f;
}

Console.WriteLine(d == 1m);
Console.WriteLine(f == 1f);

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Efran Cobisi
http://www.cobisi.com

Frans Bouma wrote:
>> In a little more than a nutshell, why does the CLR only throw a divide by
>> zero exception for integers?
>>
>
>         I think because, if I recall correctly, a floating point number is
> always an approximation, so you can have a floating point value which seems 0
> but actually isn't.
>
>         Though for decimals, it should indeed...
>
>                 FB
>
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