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> It's hard for most people to really conceptualize value of very small numbers.

That's why we do all the tricks to workaround the problem of long numbers. We're measuring the length in ~6.68458134 × 10-12 AU, time in 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation, etc. etc. all the time. We just call them 1 meter and 1 second instead. Once a "reasonable amount" of BTC reaches either 1k BTC or 1m BTC, someone will come up with a new, cute and short name for those - I don't think we'll have a problem with small / big numbers here.

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