why can't you assign a number with a decimal point to decimal type directly without using type suffix?

Question

Why can\'t you assign a number with a decimal point to the decimal type directly without using type suffix? isn\'t this kind of number considered a number of type decimal?

Answer 1

This

decimal bankBalance = 3433.20M;

will work. The reason is that float and decimal are very different types. float will give you an extremely close approximation of the number you enter, but decimal will give you the exact number. 99% of the time you wont notice the difference, and should just use float.