Description
The System.Decimal type can represent values from approximately –7.9 × 1028 to 7.9 × 1028, with 28 or 29 significant digits. The System.Decimal data type is ideally suited to financial calculations that require a large number of significant digits and no round-off errors.
The finite set of values of type decimal are of the form –1s × c × 10-f, where the sign s is 0 or 1, the coefficient c is given by 0 <= c < 296, and the scale f is such that 0 <= f <= 28.
A System.Decimal is represented as a 96-bit integer scaled by a power of ten. For a System.Decimal with an absolute value less than 1.0, the value is exact to the 28th decimal place, but no further. For a System.Decimal with an absolute value greater than or equal to 1.0, the value ...
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