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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Proposal for Alternative Decimal Notation for Crypto Currencies
by
DrGoose
on 02/08/2013, 08:48:20 UTC
I like the idea but I gave it a try and it's not so obvious to do the do basic math quickly with it...

I'm also a bit confused.
You say 3|13 is 0.00013
Then digitalindustry says |13 is like 1|13 which should be 0.013?
So what's 0.13 now?

And if you get 1.0098 coins (1 coin + 2|98), how do you write it in a short way?

Thanks for giving it some thought.

I will just cover the OP proposal here. digitalindustry proposal differ a bit and I would prefer each to be discuss in their own thread to avoid confusion.

0.13   -> 0|13 (but I would just use 0.13 on a website)
0.013  -> 1|13
0.0013 -> 2|13

and so on...

1.0098 -> 1.2|98 (read as-is: 1 dot 2 zeros 98) but frankly I would not use a "point zero notation" for 1 and above. Might be too much to digest.

For CoinBuzz:
320.0000012 -> 320.5|12 (320 dot 5 zeros 12). Working but not pretty.