Do not use comma as thousands separator #379

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   gavinandresen commented at 1:50 pm on July 4, 2011: contributor

   Using the comma as thousands separator causes problems for parts of the world where comma == decimal point. Germans sending 0,001 bitcoins are unpleasantly surprised when that results in 1 BTC getting sent.
2. Do not use comma as thousands separator

   Using the comma as thousands separator causes problems for parts of the world
   where comma == decimal point.  Germans sending 0,001 bitcoins are unpleasantly
   surprised when that results in 1 BTC getting sent.

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   sgimenez commented at 5:00 pm on July 4, 2011: contributor

   There is also an overflow problem with ParseMoney. Maybe this should be fixed in the same time.

   0"10000000000"   -> Parse and Format -> "10,000,000,000.00"  (ok)
   1"100000000000"  -> Parse and Format -> "-84,467,440,737.09551616" (not ok)
   2"1000000000000" -> Parse and Format -> "77,662,796,314.5224192" (not ok)
   

   etc.

   Of course there is this limit of ~21 MBTC, but I think it’s safer to prevent overflows. Who knows, someone might try to input fictive money amounts.

4. 
   jgarzik commented at 10:47 pm on July 4, 2011: contributor

   ACK

   Should this be pulled for 0.3.24?

5. gavinandresen referenced this in commit 9390431ce4 on Jul 5, 2011
6. gavinandresen merged this on Jul 5, 2011
7. gavinandresen closed this on Jul 5, 2011

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