user99620: How is the monetary aspect of a bitcoin stored? 
I understand that the blockchain is a set of records documenting transactions. I've also seen that blockchains in general can store arbitrary information (such as contracts, small notes, etc).
What I don't understand is how monetary values are recorded, exchanged, and divided.
Is a literal number value encrypted into the transaction? Or is it something more abstract? 

user7272: Within the Bitcoin protocol, each Bitcoin is represented as 100000000 satoshis. Therefore, you can divide bitcoin up with a precision of 0.00000001.
In a transaction, the number of satoshis being delivered to each output is recorded, along with a record of which previous output is being spent.
The fee is then derived from sum(Inputs) - sum(Outputs). The actual representation of the amount itself is encoded using the Variable Length Integer representation

99620: <p>How is the monetary aspect of a bitcoin stored? 
I understand that the blockchain is a set of records documenting transactions. I've also seen that blockchains in general can store arbitrary information (such as contracts, small notes, etc).</p>

<p>What I don't understand is how monetary values are recorded, exchanged, and divided.</p>

<p>Is a literal number value encrypted into the transaction? Or is it something more abstract? </p>
 7272: <p>Within the Bitcoin protocol, each Bitcoin is represented as 100000000 satoshis. Therefore, you can divide bitcoin up with a precision of 0.00000001.</p>

<p>In a transaction, the number of satoshis being delivered to each output is recorded, along with a record of which previous output is being spent.</p>

<p>The fee is then derived from <code>sum(Inputs) - sum(Outputs)</code>. The actual representation of the amount itself is encoded using the <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Variable Length Integer representation</a></p>
