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luke-jrwhat is your python code supposed to do????
RE: best practices in ECMAScript:
Just converting to base units doesn't magically fix the issues; if I have 1.0BTC == 100000000.0 base units and I need to divide that value into three equal pieces, I'm going to run into issues whether the result is 0.3333333.... or 3333333.33333...
 
And the fixes are the sameeither round to the nearest .0000001 or to the nearest 1 before display, etc.
 
 
For Ruby I think the syntax is:
 
(f * 1e8).round.to_f / 1e8
 
Correct?
 
== ECMAScript? ==
 
Since the value is already in ECMAScript's native representation, why would you use a conversion function?
* The RPC value is passed as an inexact floating point. Money handling should always be done as integers. --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] 00:57, 11 June 2011 (GMT)

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RE: best practices in ECMAScript: Just converting to base units doesn't magically fix the issues; if I have 1.0BTC == 100000000.0 base units and I need to divide that value into three equal pieces, I'm going to run into issues whether the result is 0.3333333.... or 3333333.33333...

And the fixes are the same: either round to the nearest .0000001 or to the nearest 1 before display, etc.


For Ruby I think the syntax is:

(f * 1e8).round.to_f / 1e8

Correct?

ECMAScript?

Since the value is already in ECMAScript's native representation, why would you use a conversion function?

  • The RPC value is passed as an inexact floating point. Money handling should always be done as integers. --Luke-jr 00:57, 11 June 2011 (GMT)