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Why isn't totalSupply = _initialAmount * (10 ** uint256(decimals)) #156

Open eervin123 opened 4 years ago

eervin123 commented 4 years ago

I'm assuming this was done on purpose, but perhaps it would be helpful to add an additional comment at line 33. I see a number of comments on the web where people are minting their tokens and can't understand why the total supply isn't what they expected it to be when they check etherscan.

Here is an example. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/62830/token-totalsupply-displaying-zero-at-etherscan-but-displays-correctly-at-remix