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0 pointsMacha1y ago0 comments

Well I mean, if your minimal unit is 1c, then a price like $22.56 should be encoded as 2256 cents.

If you're doing ads and going for millicents, something like $0.01234 should be encoded as 1234 millicents.

Obviously you have to agree on what you're measuring in the API, you can't have some values be millicents and others cents.

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worddepress1y ago

Yeah I am more laughing that once encoded in JSON as { "p": 2256, "dp": 2 } you are using 2 floating point numbers. But JSON, and indeed JS wasn't designed.

MachaOP1y ago

To be clear, I wasn't advocating for flexible decimal points. There is no "dp" parameter in the solution I was proposing. It's just documented in the API that "price" is denominated in cents (or satoshis or whatever you want)

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