Re: [paymentrequest] Currency Specification (#18)

If using strings, note that different locales will use different decimal separators (comma vs decimal dot), as well as other possible formatting. This might be confusing if, e.g. a German price string like "567,89" is displayed to an American user.

Javascript uses IEEE 754 64bit numbers, which allow for 15 digits of precision. For the sake of not complicating the spec, I'd say that's "good enough" for the vast majority of use cases that we are trying to address, no?

Extreme precision would only be significant for things like stock trading, but that sort of transactions are, as far as I understand, out of scope here.

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