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Topic
Board Exchanges
Re: MtGox withdrawal delays [Gathering]
by
JorgeStolfi
on 18/12/2014, 01:46:18 UTC
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....the amount of BTC managed by the bankruptcy estate was stated as “202,149.2273849003BTC” but it was a clerical mistake, and “202,149.2273849BTC” is the ” is the correct figure.

counting every last Satoshi!

Someone stored the amount as a double-precision floating point number (which holds a little more than 15 significant digits), and printed it with 11 decimals after point, instead of 8.