Remove trailing zeros

Question

I have some fields returned by a collection as

2.4200
2.0044
2.0000

I want results like

2.42
2.0044
2

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Answer 1

A very low level approach, but I belive this would be the most performant way by only using fast integer calculations (and no slow string parsing and culture sensitive methods):

public static decimal Normalize(this decimal d)
{
    int[] bits = decimal.GetBits(d);

    int sign = bits[3] & (1 << 31);
    int exp = (bits[3] >> 16) & 0x1f;

    uint a = (uint)bits[2]; // Top bits
    uint b = (uint)bits[1]; // Middle bits
    uint c = (uint)bits[0]; // Bottom bits

    while (exp > 0 && ((a % 5) * 6 + (b % 5) * 6 + c) % 10 == 0)
    {
        uint r;
        a = DivideBy10((uint)0, a, out r);
        b = DivideBy10(r, b, out r);
        c = DivideBy10(r, c, out r);
        exp--;
    }

    bits[0] = (int)c;
    bits[1] = (int)b;
    bits[2] = (int)a;
    bits[3] = (exp << 16) | sign;
    return new decimal(bits);
}

private static uint DivideBy10(uint highBits, uint lowBits, out uint remainder)
{
    ulong total = highBits;
    total <<= 32;
    total = total | (ulong)lowBits;

    remainder = (uint)(total % 10L);
    return (uint)(total / 10L);
}