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Thanks for the info! But did you guys thought about fractional commodities those days? Or was it clear that it is going away?

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I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings and transactions.

In hindsight do you think it was an right decision or too "pure"?

I guess I don't really have an opinion about that. Certainly an exact representation of decimal numbers was essential, and was something we needed to implement at the time, but going to a fully rational numeric stack was arguably overkill.

The current value of held assets in another currency isn't really "counting" any more, it's a prediction of the outcome of some future transaction that hasn't happened. So I'm less concerned about exactly computing it than I am in never making a mistake in assets that I am counting, i.e. keeping in one account and only incrementing and decrementing the amount when a transaction occurs.

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