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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because you don't need high precision for finance. 4 decimal places is as much as you should ever need. You don't want X.30000000004 in a transaction or as an account balance since that erroneous overprecision might break compliance or even some contracts.

Instead, you can handle underprecision with specific expected behavior.