On: 64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?

[ilyt]

2^63 / 100 Trillion = 9.2E6 so even in this case you have few decimal positions left.

[zarzavat → ilyt]

You may be overlooking the potential for someone to own more than one of those $100T bills. Apparently it was worth about 30 USD at the time.

[hot_gril → zarzavat]

If $100T = 30 USD, then probably nobody will mind if we round to the nearest $1B. Just like how I have no way to compensate someone for less than 0.01 USD.

[xypage → hot_gril]

The government cares, the precision necessary for taxes is sub cent as mentioned in some replies to the top comment on this post.