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I know what nLockTime and nSequence do, but I'm just curious about where the 'n' comes from. Thanks
What does the 'n' in nLockTime and nSequence stand for?
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It stand for a number, it is commonly used in programming to designate a variable that gonna hold an amount of something see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/NLockTime and https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/NSequence
That makes a lot of sense. Thank! – Darius – 2019-11-07T13:32:47.607
5The concept of prefixing variable names with information about their type is called Hungarian notation. It was common in Windows programming in the '90s, and now is generally considered a bad idea. – Pieter Wuille – 2019-11-07T16:33:25.380