#asknostr

Could bitcoin have been made with decimals instead of integers for representing wallet amounts and transaction amounts, for infinite divisibility? I’m asking both practically and theoretically.

I really mean “positive real numbers” when I say decimals.

Practically I understand there might be floating point division and rounding errors that could prevent it, and maybe that’s why Satoshi didn’t do it, but what if that wasn’t an issue? If we suspend those types of computational math errors and say, hypothetically we have a world where those errors don’t exist, would a decimal based bitcoin otherwise work? And in that world would it be okay that it’s infinitely divisible, or are there other problems that crop up?