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by conductr 2507 days ago
They can’t bill that way though and this is a monetary transfer api

Just like how the complex algorithm of determining insurance rates is likely to yield a long decimal, it has to be rounded to translate to a currency. Heck even things like sales tax being a % requires a rounding calc to be done on majority of transactions before the monetary units are tallied for the “total”