The following are examples of decimal values.

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546.88 3425.57

The following is not a decimal, but rather an Integer Data Type.

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342

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, the Decimal data type is mapped to the Microsoft .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR) Decimal data type and the precision and limits behave slightly differently than the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) data type in previous versions of C/AL. This example shows how decimal data types are different in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.

The following table shows the limits for variables of type DECIMAL in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and in previous versions.

This table shows that the maximum safe value that will work on all versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is +/- 999,999,999,999,999.99.

It is possible to assign to a variable the maximum value that can be formatted and then multiply that variable by a large positive number, thereby generating a greater value. However, we do not recommend doing this. If you do, you will get errors if you attempt to format this variable to a text variable or assign the variable to a field variable in a record.

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