Converting Decimal to Double in C#: How to Avoid Loss of Precision?
Hello everyone! I'm new to C# and encountered a problem while working with financial calculations. I have a variable of type `decimal` that stores an amount with precision up to kopecks (for example, 123.45m). I need to pass this value to a method that accepts a parameter of type `double`. \n\nI tried a simple explicit cast: `(double)myDecimal`, and the code compiled. But when I printed the result, I noticed that the number sometimes changes. For example, `123.45m` turned into `123.44999999999999`. This causes errors in calculations.\n\nHere's an example of my code:\n\n```csharp\ndecimal price = 123.45m;\ndouble convertedPrice = (double)price;\nConsole.WriteLine(convertedPrice); // Outputs 123.44999999999999\n```\n\nWhy does this happen? I thought that `double` can store large numbers, but why is precision lost?
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