Docs: Numbers in C#: step 5 is misleading

Created on 15 Feb 2020  Â·  3Comments  Â·  Source: dotnet/docs

Step 5, Work with fixed point types, states that the decimal type is the fixed-point type. However, it's not: decimal is a floating-point type.

Rather than fixing that, I suggest to remove the whole step 5 from the tutorial. @BillWagner what do you think?


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@pkulikov I think it's worth fixing this page rather than removing it. Beginners would see decimal early in learning C#. It's good to cover it here.

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@pkulikov I think it's worth fixing this page rather than removing it. Beginners would see decimal early in learning C#. It's good to cover it here.

@BillWagner indeed, would be ideal if the tutorial described use cases for those types.
Then, this issue becomes related to #8804.

Related: #17191

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