Comments on the System.Double article #52117
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(Type of issue: Improvements might be appropriate)
This is a great in depth article, but I have a few questions that may lead to some tweaks.
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You may also notice there that .NET 10/C# 14 lists all 17 digits, regardless of formatting
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I was surprised that the
IsApproximatelyEqualin the section on equality divided by the max or min of the passed values. I anticipate the intent here is to place it in the correct range of exponent, and if so, I think it's worth a sentence explaining it. (If it surprised me on first read, it might surprise someone else) -
In the section Floating point values and exceptions the first sentence seems incorrect: "Unlike operations with integral types, which throw exceptions in cases of overflow or illegal operations such as division by zero, operations with floating-point values do not throw exceptions. " This only occurs in a checked context. I think many people are unaware of this issue, so I think it is worth rewording and adding a link to integer behavior.
None of these are big issues, but it's a great article and I'd love to contribute to making it better.
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-double
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https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-double.md
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