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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...