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September 20th, 2004, 05:09 PM

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hi

i want to ask about the difference between :

decimal d = 12.60

and

decimal d = 12.60M

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September 20th, 2004, 08:23 PM

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M is a special formatting character.

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If you want a numeric real literal to be treated as decimal, use the suffix m or M.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ecimaltype.asp

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