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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:05:06+00:00

I was working on Project Euler 40 , and was a bit bothered that

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I was working on Project Euler 40, and was a bit bothered that there was no int.Parse(char). Not a big deal, but I did some asking around and someone suggested char.GetNumericValue. GetNumericValue seems like a very odd method to me:

  • Takes in a char as a parameter and returns… a double?
  • Returns -1.0 if the char is not ‘0’ through ‘9’

So what’s the reasoning behind this method, and what purpose does returning a double serve? I even fired up Reflector and looked at InternalGetNumericValue, but it’s just like watching Lost: every answer just leads to another question.

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    Remember that it’s taking a Unicode character and returning a value. ‘0’ through ‘9’ are the standard decimal digits, however there are other Unicode characters that represent numbers, some of which are floating point.

    Like this character: ¼

    Console.WriteLine( char.GetNumericValue( '¼' ) );

    Outputs 0.25 in the console window.

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