Applications using Decimal versus double . .

Question

I wanted to see if folks were using decimal for financial applications instead of double. I have seen lots of folks using double all over the place with unintended conseque

Answer 1

Yes, using float or double for financials is a common mistake, leading to much, much pain. decimal is the most obvious choice in this scenario.

For general knowledge, a good discussion of each is here (float/double) and here (decimal).