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Casting a float to a double

July 1, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments
Casting a float to a double looses precision in C#, causing bugs like this:

                float x = (float)12.34;
                double y = x;

What value is y?
12.34000015258789

If you really have to use floats, then this is an easy fix

double y = (double)(decimal)x;

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