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Because floating point operations create rounding problems in computers. You must set certain precision (8 decimals) and then work with integer units of that precision (people decided to call them sats).
Yea the question isn't why its not floating point, but why the macro unit differs from the base unit.
Psyops the only explanation: #1243715
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