Is there a reason, the conversion properties return double for quantities with base type decimal?

[pgrawehr]

Some quantities, for instance information have decimal as base type (which does make sense). However, except for the Value property, all properties return double:

/// <summary>
///     Gets a <see cref="double"/> value of this quantity converted into <see cref="InformationUnit.Bit"/>
/// </summary>
public double Bits => As(InformationUnit.Bit);

/// <summary>
///     Gets a <see cref="double"/> value of this quantity converted into <see cref="InformationUnit.Byte"/>
/// </summary>
public double Bytes => As(InformationUnit.Byte);

This is a bit confusing and unnecessarily looses precision. Would it be possible to change these properties to decimal, too?

[tmilnthorp]

I agree it's not great.

We just closed #1051 which would have deprecated the double conversion properties in favor of returning a Quantity type. You would then be able to use the Value property (or IConvertible interfaces) to retrieve the result as a decimal.

Feel free to look over the arguments there, but I do feel that returning a Quantity gives you more power/flexibility in terms of what you can do with the result.

[lipchev]

There is also #875 for you (all) to consider- it's not the most straightforward approach and I haven't thought it through a 100% - but that's why I put it up for discussion.

[tmilnthorp]

Although not as convenient, you can also use

BitRate rate = BitRate.FromKilobitsPerSecond(56);
decimal mb = rate.ToUnit(BitRateUnit.MegabitPerSecond).Value;

[angularsen]

Closing this in favor of #875

[angularsen]

Re-opening, realized this describes one of several solutions discussed in #875 .

• IQuantity.Value should return QuantityValue
• decimal based quantities should return decimal in their conversion properties, like Information.Bits

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[angularsen]

Not stale, PR #1074 recently had activity.

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