In the interests of capitalism and programming...

[adhocimperium]

"Pay transaction fee: <0.01>" should be able to use the full range of double-precision floating-point numbers.

[adhocimperium]

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

[theymos]

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.

[jgarzik]

Bitcoins are fixed-point numbers stored as integers, so strictly speaking, you're out of luck.

[adhocimperium]

okay, what else can we do to make bitcoin better?

[jgarzik]

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.

[adhocimperium]

wow jgarzik, you're a fucking genius, get to #highdeas and #bitcoin-trade on freenode.

[adhocimperium]

also, how is that C99 CPU miner going?
I need someone to write a sick-ass GPU miner for my syndicate!