# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-03-30 18:22:16
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4086.msg75744#msg75744

Apologies to Nefario, I was reacting to the wiki pages written by genjix on how to use PHP with bitcoind that started with: @p{par}

+ First, compile my fork. @p{brk}
+ Next, install the GMP and BCMath libraries... @p{par}

And why do I defend floats:  because simple things should be simple.  Using GMP/BCMATH is overkill for 98% of what bitcoin JSON-RPC users will be doing. @p{par}

And because certain people keep beating this dead horse.  I have said that I am PERFECTLY WILLING to support strings in the JSON-RPC interface if somebody can demonstrate to me someplace where it is actually a real problem (that isn't trivially solved using something like round(value*1e8+0.5) or printf("%.08", value)). @p{par}