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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: adhocimperium on December 27, 2010, 11:47:07 PM



Title: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: adhocimperium on December 27, 2010, 11:47:07 PM
"Pay transaction fee: <0.01>" should be able to use the full range of double-precision floating-point numbers.


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: adhocimperium on December 27, 2010, 11:56:32 PM
as in, I want my fee to be <0.0099999999999999999999999999999999999>


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: theymos on December 27, 2010, 11:58:26 PM
All current generators ignore sub-cent portions of the fee, so why would you want to?

as in, I want my fee to be <0.0099999999999999999999999999999999999>

Bitcoin has an eight-decimal precision limit, and for all current generators this would be exactly the same as a fee of 0.


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: jgarzik on December 27, 2010, 11:58:31 PM
Bitcoins are fixed-point numbers stored as integers, so strictly speaking, you're out of luck.


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: adhocimperium on December 28, 2010, 12:01:06 AM
okay, what else can we do to make bitcoin better?


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: jgarzik on December 28, 2010, 12:06:53 AM
okay, what else can we do to make bitcoin better?

Start a business, or convince a business to accept bitcoins, or convince a charity to accept bitcoins as donation.  Grow the bitcoin economy.


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: adhocimperium on December 28, 2010, 12:13:56 AM
wow jgarzik, you're a fucking genius, get to #highdeas and #bitcoin-trade on freenode.


Title: Re: In the interests of capitalism and programming...
Post by: adhocimperium on December 28, 2010, 12:15:29 AM
also, how is that C99 CPU miner going?
I need someone to write a sick-ass GPU miner for my syndicate!