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<small>* Tonal BitCoin and Decimal BitCoin can be differentiated by the pronunciation of the numbers. "One bitcoin", "two bitcoin", etc is decimal, but "an bitcoin", "de bitcoin" is tonal.</small>
 
<small>* Tonal BitCoin and Decimal BitCoin can be differentiated by the pronunciation of the numbers. "One bitcoin", "two bitcoin", etc is decimal, but "an bitcoin", "de bitcoin" is tonal.</small>
  
The total number of Tonal BitCoins ever (analogous to the 21mil BTC) is just under 7.76 tam-TBC.
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The total number of Tonal BitCoins ever (analogous to the 21mil BTC) is just under 7.76 tam-bitcoin.
  
 
For more information on the Tonal system in general, please see [http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/tonal-system/10991091 the book].
 
For more information on the Tonal system in general, please see [http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/tonal-system/10991091 the book].

Revision as of 02:36, 13 January 2011

Please note, that all numbers of TBC and its divisions/multipliers are written in Tonal, not decimal. This means that instead of counting 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-- you count: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, , 9, , , , , , 10. Some higher-value digits may require installing a font.

Unit BTC TBC Pronunciation
TBCᵇ 0.00000001 0.0001 BitCoin-bong
TBCᵐ 0.00000016 0.001 BitCoin-mill
TBCˢ 0.00000256 0.01 BitCoin-san
TBCᵗ 0.00004096 0.1 BitCoin-ton
TBC 0.00065536 1 BitCoin*
ᵗTBC 0.01048576 10 Ton-BitCoin
ˢTBC 0.16777216 100 San-Bitcoin
ᵐTBC 2.68435456 1000 Mill-BitCoin
ᵇTBC 42.94967296 1,0000 Bong-BitCoin
2,814,749.76710656 1,0000,0000 Tam-BitCoin

* Tonal BitCoin and Decimal BitCoin can be differentiated by the pronunciation of the numbers. "One bitcoin", "two bitcoin", etc is decimal, but "an bitcoin", "de bitcoin" is tonal.

The total number of Tonal BitCoins ever (analogous to the 21mil BTC) is just under 7.76 tam-bitcoin.

For more information on the Tonal system in general, please see the book.

Guessing TBC or BTC

Given variable 'value' in base units (uBTCents/TBCᵇ), one can guess whether it is properly Decimal BitCoin or Tonal BitCoin with the following pseudo-code:

if ( ! ( this % 0x10000 ) )
	Choose Tonal BitCoin
if ( ! ( this % 1000000 ) )
	Choose Decimal BitCoin
if ( ! ( this % 0x100 ) )
	Choose Tonal BitCoin