Quote from: brianddk on February 04, 2019, 05:23:15 AM

Understood, but the final statement asserting merging seems to overwrite the previous statements, or that is a general reading in english.

The FAQ answer makes three statements to the question "What will happen if I send less than lowest chip?":
1. Since we don't have chips lower than 0.001 BTC, your deposit will be treated as donation.
2. Be aware that if you send 0.0015 BTC, you will receive one 0.001 BTC chip.
3. Sending 0.0015 BTC twice will result in three 0.001 BTC chips.

The way I read it, the actual answer is 1 and that "rule" is what will count for amounts less than 0.001 BTC. Unfortunately, they then added statements 2&3 to the same answer... when I think it should be a separate case (what happens to amounts that are not exact chip size).

Statement 2, is trying to indicate that when you send in an amount (over the minimum), they will "round down" to minimum chip size... 0.0015, 0.0028, 0.0034 and 1.2349 will all be rounded DOWN to nearest 0.001. (0.001, 0.002, 0.003 and 1.234 respectively)
Statement 3, is trying to tell you, that if you deposit multiple amounts (that are not counted as donations)... they'll be summed BEFORE the rounding occurs.

I'd agree that the current example is a little confusing... and can certainly understand why you thought it would work that way. I think the ChipMixer admins should tidy that FAQ section up a little to make it a bit more obvious.

Personally, I would split it out into two separate cases like this:
"What will happen if I send less than lowest chip?":
- Any deposit less than 0.001 BTC will be regarded as a donation, even if you make multiple small deposits that total more than 0.001.

"What will happen if I send an amount that isn't an exact chip size? ie. 0.00143787":
- Any amount deposited over the minimum chip size, will be rounded down to the minimum chip size (ie. rounded down to 0.001 btc).
Examples:
Deposit 0.00143787 -> rounded down to 0.001
Deposit 0.0015 -> rounded down to 0.001
Deposit 1.0249 -> rounded down to 1.024

- However, if you make multiple deposits (over minimum chip size) they will be summed together before rounding.
Examples:
Deposit 0.0015 + 0.0016 -> summed to 0.0031 -> rounded down to 0.003
Deposit 0.0011 + 0.0011 + 0.0019 -> summed to 0.0041 -> rounded down to 0.004