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title: "number · RUAL Documentation"
description: "Generates a valid number from the filled custom value in the blueprint."
canonical: https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/number/number_default
language: en
---

# number

This block is part of the [`number`](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/number) group and was last modified in core [`v10.4.28`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/100428).

Generates a valid number from the filled custom value in the blueprint.

- number `number`

A [number](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/number/number_default) block holds a fixed number in its input field. Two of them feed a [>](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/condition/condition_gt) comparison here, and the result drives a [branch](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/flow/branch). In a real blueprint one side would usually come from live data instead of a second fixed number.

![Studio canvas example for the number block: fixed numbers in a comparison.](https://docs.rual.nl/canvas-examples/number_default.png)

### Commonly used with

One of the most-used blocks across production blueprints. It is most often wired together with:

- [reply in JSON](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/json/httpconnection_set_json): this block feeds into it. Reply to any httpconnection as JSON body.

- [resize](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/files/function_resize_image): this block feeds into it. resize given images with new dimensions.

- [substring](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/value/value_substr): this block feeds into it.

- [search](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/storage/function_search): this block feeds into it. searches in the given storage based on a query.

- [if](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/number/number_branch): this block feeds into it.

- [>=](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/condition/condition_gte): this block feeds into it. returns true if the number is higher or equal.

### Used in these guides

These documentation pages use or explain this block:

- [Repeating Events](https://docs.rual.nl/blueprints/repeating-events)

- [Quickstart](https://docs.rual.nl/getting-started/quickstart)

### Version history

Introduced in [`v10.4.28`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/100428).