Me either... why wouldn't they use double precision?
Why wouldn't they use fixed-point? Floating point is for when you don't know how many decimal places you need. With Bitcoin you know exactly how many you need; Mt. Gox should not use floating point at all. 
Topic: Mtgox using single precision float for bitcoin? (Read 1875 times)
This doesn't fill me with confidence.
Me either... why wouldn't they use double precision?
yikes
I put in a sell order for 1 BTC on MTGOX at 1e120, just to see what the limit was. The system now reports I have an open order at 3.40282e+38.
This doesn't fill me with confidence. Might make some of the weird rounding on orders I've heard people complain about in IRC make more sense...
This doesn't fill me with confidence. Might make some of the weird rounding on orders I've heard people complain about in IRC make more sense...
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