Decimal Data Type
Group:Data Type
Description:
Win32 only. A 96 bit scaled real value. Decimal is not a valid variable
type, but Variant variables
can contain decimal values (see CDec).
A decimal number is of the form: s*m*10^-p where
• s - sign (+1 or -1)
• m - mantissa, unsigned binary value of 96 bits (0 to 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335)
• p - scaling power (0 to +28)