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+layout: forum
+title: 'Re: BUG Report: Rounding glitch'
+grand_parent: Forum Posts
+parent: Bitcoin Forum
+nav_order: 225
+date: 2010-07-17 16:06:12 UTC
+original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=432.msg3769#msg3769
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+# Re: BUG Report: Rounding glitch
+
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+
+```
+Re: BUG Report: Rounding glitch
+July 17, 2010, 04:06:12 PM
+
+It must be a rounding error when getinfo converts to floating point to return the JSON-RPC result.  The only place where it uses floating point to represent money is returning a value in JSON-RPC.
+
+1.139999999999 is longer than bitcoin can internally represent.
+
+internally, it could only be:
+1.13999999 or
+1.14000000
+
+1.139999999999 is much much closer to 1.14000000 than 1.13999999, so it must be 1.14000000.
+
+The code is this:
+(double)GetBalance() / (double)COIN.
+
+(I can't think of an easy way to fix it at the moment)
+```