Why does a C# System.Decimal remember trailing zeros?

Question

Is there a reason that a C# System.Decimal remembers the number of trailing zeros it was entered with? See the following example:

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Answer 1

I think it was done to provide a better internal representation for numeric values retrieved from databases. Dbase engines have a long history of storing numbers in a decimal format (avoiding rounding errors) with an explicit specification for the number of digits in the value.

Compare the SQL Server decimal and numeric column types for example.