Re: Why can't I get simple multipliation answer

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Amil <amilhanish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to multiple two decimal numbers and get the normal result...instead,
I get a very large decimal result. Any idea how I can correct this problem?

double d1 = 5.21;
double d2 = 8.8;
double d = d1 * d2;
// d is now 45.848000000000006 in debugger or WriteLine

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/floatingpoint.html

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