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I'm having trouble visualizing this. The closest I could get is a single unique part for an A380 super-jumbo (typical selling price: $435 million USD)

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Imagine a contract which says the contract partner receives e.g. 0.001% of the total revenue for the fiscal year (which could be 10bn Euros)

Or you do have a gram price and are selling literally thousands of tons to a big business

This is clearly why you should price everything in picodollars :) https://www.tarsnap.com/

> Imagine a contract which says the contract partner receives e.g. 0.001% of the total revenue for the fiscal year (which could be 10bn Euros)

I'm imagining it, and I don't see why storage or computation time would be major obstacles to a calculation you run once a year. Use whatever big integers you want?

Suppose we dedicated one $100 hard drive (per year!) to storing all the relevant data. I feel like there would be plenty of space left over, and the budget would cover it.

But which advantage would this have over using IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating point numbers?

Precision.

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