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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Is it time to think about decimal precision ?
by
haltingprobability
on 06/12/2017, 03:03:54 UTC
It's really bad bad very bad idea!
Only integer numbers.

Not to worry, Bitcoin is never going to use floating-point arithmetic because rounding errors would screw up the total number of Bitcoins over time - cumulative error grows exponentially with number of operations. Integer-math guarantees that the number of satoshis in circulation will always balance correctly. Smiley