Quote from: BanditryAndLoot on November 29, 2014, 09:56:07 PM

I was reading this article here: http://insidebitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-foundation-seeks-standardization-of-the-bitcoin-experience/25414

They had this to say about the standardization for existing financial software:

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Finally, the group hopes to develop ways to offer less confusion for the number of decimal places that are currently allowed in Bitcoin. For the average currency, a user only thinks about two decimal places. $1.52 is one dollar and fifty-two cents. But in Bitcoin, there are eight possible decimal places. Therefore, someone could note a value all the way out to 0.00000001 Bitcoin. Thats one hundred-millionth. For the average person, that is likely to be very confusing. And its a nightmare for accountants and financial software.

I was wondering if anyone could please help me understand how decimal places are handled in the Bitcoin source code, with regard to the length of the decimal place?

As far as the article goes .. would a solution be to just chop off anything below 100k satoshi, or would the total coin supply just be changed to 22,000,000,000,000.00 Bitcoins?

I tried reading through the wiki, and I can't really find a good description as to how that's handled.

Is there already a thread talking about this? Sorry if there is, please just point me to the link if you have it

I have gotten use to 1 satashi and the decimal place it takes up... i know that 100ksatashi is a mBTC and it is just eassy for me to keep up with the places as is already