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I registered for this and got 5,000.999999 Stellars. Kinda curious about the 0.999999 part...

• Walkman 12y ago
  The values are probably stored in float, which is ridiculous.
  • hackerweb 12y ago
    This confused me as well. Stellars are stored in fixed point, as millionths of a stellar. But there's a tiny anti-spam fee for each payment transaction, so if you've sent money somewhere you may find an extra 0.000010 gone.
  • jonny_eh 12y ago
    A better way to phrase what you just did: Maybe the values are stored as a float? But that would be silly, so there must be a better reason.
    • mingabunga 12y ago
      From FAQs: To prevent spam, each transaction burns 10 microstellars (that is, 0.00001 stellars).
      • theswan 12y ago
        Where do the 10 microstellars go? Are they actually destroyed?
        • makomk 12y ago
          If it's the same as Ripple which this is based on, then the 10 microstellars are destroyed, yes.
  • hyperliner 12y ago
    Just for fun: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100490/floating-point-inaccuracy-examples http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100490/floating-point-in...
• hyperliner 12y ago
  Maybe they are doing floating point math in Javascript! :-) (which would be silly, so there must be another reason! :-)
• papp 12y ago
  From the FAQ: > To prevent spam, each transaction burns 10 microstellars (that is, 0.00001 stellars). They must have been transferring +1 Stellar to cover the transaction fee. An 5k balance looks better than 4999.