Limit of External contacts stored in GAL

Hello is there any limit regarding maximum external contacts that could be stored in AD and be used through GAL in Outlook? I am trying searching the internet for some documentation and would be grateful if someone could point me to that. Thanks in advance.

How many were you thinking of?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/active-directory-maximum-limits-scalability(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_Objects
"Each domain controller in an Active Directory forest can create a little bit less than 2.15 billion objects during its lifetime."
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