Is there a zero [ 0 ] constant somewhere in any Microsoft .NET class?

Question

I'm just curious and I know it's not of much value, but here it goes...

I think that I have seen something like that somewhere but I'm not sure.

I mean something like this:

var zero = Class.Zero;

I tried looking at the Math class but it's not there.

I also know that I can use an unsigned value type like ushort.Min to get a Zero ( 0 ) value; it's not what I'm asking here... :D

Answer 1

Do you mean default(T)?

int zero = default(int);

This represents the default value for a given type, for int this is 0. You should not use this if you know already you need zero though, only in the case that you have a type at run time for which you need the default value.

Answer 2

There's one for Decimal.Zero and a few other more complex types like TimeSpan.Zero, IntPtr.Zero and BigInteger.Zero. But for regular numeric types, just use 0.