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    The difference is more than just precision. -- decimal is actually stored in decimal format (as opposed to base 2; so it won't lose or round digits due to conversion between the two numeric systems); additionally, decimal has no concept of special values such as NaN, -0, ∞, or -∞. Commented Sep 16, 2017 at 1:19