Tag Archives: division

Compare floating-point values safely in C#

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Rod Stephens

The computer stores values, including floating-point values, in binary using 0s and 1s. That means it cannot store all possible decimal values exactly. Sometimes when you multiply or divide two floating-point values, the computer is unable to store the result … Continue reading →

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Compare the performance of simple arithmetic operations in C#

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Rod Stephens

I saw a post the other day that said division was the slowest arithmetic operation so I wrote this example to see exactly how the performance of multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction differ with floating point numbers. When you click … Continue reading →

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