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Re: [paymentrequest] CurrencyAmount description has exponent sign wrong (#39)

From: Manu Sporny <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:13:39 -0800
To: WICG/paymentrequest <paymentrequest@noreply.github.com>
Message-ID: <WICG/paymentrequest/issues/39/165340258@github.com>
> If the value was mantissa * 10 ^ exponent, the value would be 550000 not 55.00.

This is exactly the sort of issue I'm concerned about wrt. the use of mantissa and exponent, even the spec got it wrong. I expect Web developers to get it wrong too, and potentially request payment for the wrong amount of money.

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