Title pretty much sums it up. I’d bet that over half the usage of this method in the wild involves someone casting an int to a decimal or double in order to use it, so why isn’t there just an overload that takes an int as the argument?
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Title pretty much sums it up. I’d bet that over half the usage of this method in the wild involves someone casting an int to a decimal or double in order to use it, so why isn’t there just an overload that takes an int as the argument?
Because it’s directly related to the STR function found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189527.aspx
and that function only takes a float, hence the parameters you’re seeing.