decimal vs double

From: "John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-gmail-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:03:38 -0700

Apparently, financial calculations should be performed with decimal not
double, however .NET does not make it easy to work with decimal.

Literal numeric non-integral values are by default treated as doubles.

The constants in System.Math (Pi,E) are doubles.

What are the relative benefits of using decimal to store financial data ?

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