C# - Greater decimal accuracy than Decimal type

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C# - Greater decimal accuracy than Decimal type

Is it possible to get more decimal precision than the decimal type in C#? According to MSDN, the decimal type can store up to 29 significant digits, however I am wondering if it possible to store more than that and how to go about doing so.

Thanks in advance.

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Sure - you can come up with your own data type (or use an existing third party library - the J++ runtime has an implementation of BigDecimal usable from C#).

What do you need that for? It is VERY unusual to need more than 29 significant digits ;)

TomTom 2010-07-25 02:35:28

This question is more theoretical then practical. Recently I was trying to write a program to write Pi to a certain number of decimal places and I realized that I could only store up to 29 decimal places. Thus this question was born.

APShredder 2010-07-25 02:39:14

Yeah. Mathematical playing is pretty much the only real use ;)

TomTom 2010-07-25 02:53:18

You can use a scaled BigInteger if you're using 4.0. That will make arithmetic easier.

recursive 2010-07-25 05:40:50

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