> More importantly, "decimal" does not suffer from the arithmetic issues you get when using IEEE 754 floating point. It can represent represent 1/10 correctly,

> More importantly, "decimal" does not suffer from the arithmetic issues you get when using IEEE 754 floating point. It can represent represent 1/10 correctly, it can represent 1/2 correctly (so can float), how about 1/3? Outside of a few happy coincidences you are back to the same old issues.