Question

Because some people apparently think that gigabytes as a decimal is a good way to accurately store available storage space I now have the following code to convert it into a byte representation:

Convert.ToString(Convert.ToInt64(Math.Floor(someDecimal * 1024 * 1024)));

Now while this works (as-in returns the expected result), it’s not exactly elegant.

Is there a more elegant way to do this kind of conversion? (The floor is necessary).

Answer 1

Why don’t you just use this:

var result = ((Int64)(someDecimal * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)).ToString();

Of course, that should be encapsulated in some helper method. you don’t want that sprinkled throughout your code.