by Steve Endow
(If anyone has a technical explanation for the discrepancy between the Docs and the BC behavior, let me know!)
On Sunday night, as I am prone to do, I was testing something obscure in Business Central Online.
I was checking to see how many digits were supported in a "currency" field, aka an Amount field. Different numeric fields will have different limitations, but I was specifically interested in the limits of currency amounts.
For instance, if I needed to create a transaction in Venezuelan Bolivars, could Business Central handle a large number of Bolivars? And could it also handle a large number of Bolivars with "cents"?
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| 500,000 US Dollars is approximately 1.8 trillion Bolivars, give or take |
So I entered a really big number in Business Central and saw this error:
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| Type Decimal |
So I learned that the data type is Decimal. I can never remember the maximum data type values, so I searched for "Business Central decimal data type", which led me to this page:
