Numeric Type - Decimal

Decimal is a specific numeric value assigned to characters that represent decimal digits, such as 0 through 9 in various scripts, including Arabic-Indic and Devanagari. This value is used to identify the exact integer a character denotes in a base 10 system, which is crucial for parsing numbers, sorting, and performing arithmetic in software that handles multilingual text. Unlike other numeric forms, which may represent fractions or special values like one-half, decimal values are always whole numbers from 0 to 9. This distinction ensures that a digit from any writing system can be unambiguously converted to its standard numerical equivalent for computational processing.