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title: 'Open Discussion: Fixed Point Types'

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# Open Discussion: Fixed Point Types

*These are collaborative notes from the open discussion round about "Fixed Point Types" at the [Solidity Summit 2020](https://solidity-summit.ethereum.org/).*

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Poll: [Do you want fixed point types?](https://www.strawpoll.me/19901900)

tend towards decimal

all values of number of bits
precision? Maybe bound to 50? Are there use-cases where 1 is not representable but which use multiplication?

fixed128x18 as default seems useful

According to https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/724#issuecomment-333155336 there was no common token above 18 decimals in 2017.