When adding a decimal of value 0.000 it loses its bits

Hi,

Considering the following code

DataRow myRow = myTable.NewRow();

Decimal myDec = new Decimal( 0, 0, 0, false, 3 ); // 0.000
Console.WriteLine(myDecimal + " " + NumberOfDec(myDec));

myRow["decimal"] = myDec;
Console.WriteLine(myRow["decimal"].ToString() + " " + NumberOfDec((Decimal)myRow["decimal"]));

Where NumberOfDec is

public static int NumberOfDecimals(System.Decimal decVal)
{
int[] bits = System.Decimal.GetBits(decVal);
int retVal= Convert.ToInt32(System.BitConverter.GetBytes(bits[3])[2]);
return retVal;
}

The output of this code is
0 3
0 0

In other words myDec is 0 (zero) but with 3 decimals. But when adding it to myRow it loses the information about 3 decimals.

When looking at myDec and myRow["decimal"]) in the QuickWatch myDec's flag property is 196608 but myRow["decimal"]) flag property is 0.

I can't understand why the value changes when I am adding it. I really need to the information about how many decimal the value contains.

Any suggestions/explanations ??

/Carl

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