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

See the MSDN page on decimal which explains that there is no implicit conversion between normal float types and decimal.

Try

decimal bankBalance = 3433.20m;