decimal in c# misunderstanding?

Question

(while trying to analyze how decimal works ) && after reading @jonskeet article and seeing msdn , and thinking for the last 4 hours , I have some

Answer 1

They've given the range to just two significant digits, but specified the precision separately. That's why the range is listed as "approximate range".

The decimal representation of 0.5 would be a mantissa of 5 and an exponent of 1 (which is treated in the inverse sense to normal, i.e. it's effectively -1).