From: bryce@digicash.com
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 02:32:40 +0800
To: Matts Kallioniemi <matts@pi.se>
Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
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 An entity known as "Matts Kallioniemi" <matts@pi.se> wrote something like:
>
> Sure, but we were really discussing Ecash(tm), not accounting. To quote
> from the FAPI:
> 
> /* An EC_Amount is a signed 32-bit integer.  It represents an amount 
>  * of money in units of the coinage's base value.  
>  */


Note "units of the coinage's base value".  The coinage's base
value could be 0.000000007 Lira if the bank so desired.
Unfortunately since the largest EC_Amount in the API is 2^31,
you wouldn't be able to buy much with coins of that type.  :-)
It is more likely that the coinage's base value will be 0.01
U.S. Dollars or 0.0001 U.S. Dollars or something on that order.


If a need arises for a greater range of values, the Ecash(tm)
API can be easily extended by using a larger int for EC_Amount.


Regards,

Bryce




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