Suggest using decimal over double or float about openweathermap.cache

[MarkCiliaVincenti]

Can you please find me a practical example? We're talking about numeric values that will have one decimal figure. UnitsNet is an industry standard library used even by official Microsoft packages such as https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.IoT.Devices

[johnwc]

Industry standard in what industry? This is the first time I've ever seen it. And I wouldn't use a Microsoft library as a standard, they flip-flop between library usage all the time. Look at their constant JSON libraries they go back and forth on.

For a simple example of the odd things that floating points give you: .NET C# float.Parse returning different result to double.Parse It may be single decimal from OpenWeather, but when you need to calculate on it like converting it to/from C and F...

It's just a suggestion, I personally try to use decimal, as it has bitten me in the rear end in the past when floats cause the math to be incorrect.

[MarkCiliaVincenti]

I'm sorry, but I've chosen to take the UnitsNet approach from the very start, specifically because I wanted to have the tried-and-tested approach to the conversions needed and without having to reinvent the wheel myself. Also, it's using double not float. We are dealing with approximations anyway. This is not financial data.