Updated the title - just an API problem I guess rather than anything more sinister.
(would be handy to be able to sell 1 BTC for billions of AUD though)
Topic: Apparently you can sell 1 BTC for billions in Aus! (Read 1292 times)
I noticed this too. Seems odd from a developer point of view, you'd think the same code would apply to all currencies.
The volume is in satoshis, though I'm not sure what happened to the price. 13 billion dollars per satoshi? For bonus fun, check out the volume in currency: it's in the quintillions of dollars! At least Mt. Gox no longer has the greatest market share. 
I'm assuming someone made a mistake with decimal points.
From a programming point of view, sometimes including the decimal point in the number is a waste of space/easy to mess up, so the decimal point is left out and needs to be added in later.
For example, the Mt. Gox API tells BTC amounts in multiples of Satoshi, so 1BTC is shown as 100000000. If you forget to put the decimal back in, your calculations will be way off
From a programming point of view, sometimes including the decimal point in the number is a waste of space/easy to mess up, so the decimal point is left out and needs to be added in later.
For example, the Mt. Gox API tells BTC amounts in multiples of Satoshi, so 1BTC is shown as 100000000. If you forget to put the decimal back in, your calculations will be way off
At the moment I see this on the front page:
▼ btcmarketsAUD 12800000000.0000 14205486630.726 -9.894% 493661800
▲ mtgoxUSD 137.5800 133.952 +2.708% 482473
▲ bitstampUSD 124.1900 120.582 +2.992% 348788
▲ btceUSD 121.7030 117.732 +3.373% 111526
▲ btcnCNY 764.5900 750.387 +1.893% 101482
(I am guessing that the feed for btcmarketsAUD is in satoshis but being assumed to instead be in BTC as there are 8 zeroes after the 128)
▼ btcmarketsAUD 12800000000.0000 14205486630.726 -9.894% 493661800
▲ mtgoxUSD 137.5800 133.952 +2.708% 482473
▲ bitstampUSD 124.1900 120.582 +2.992% 348788
▲ btceUSD 121.7030 117.732 +3.373% 111526
▲ btcnCNY 764.5900 750.387 +1.893% 101482
(I am guessing that the feed for btcmarketsAUD is in satoshis but being assumed to instead be in BTC as there are 8 zeroes after the 128)
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