On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 21:28:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The reason is that otherwise, you've just limited your apps
to handling a maximum amount of $21,474,836.48.
I wouldn't mind running into that problem :-)
It's really not that hard when you consider that many
institutional investors wouldn't even consider investing in
mutual funds with that amount under management. Vanguard has
mutual funds with 100+ billion. I imagine their NAV (net asset
value) calculations have to be exact to dollars/cents too.