[aeyes]

Uber does not use float for money but the internal representation is converted to something displayable in the API layer.

Normally strings are used, for example: https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/r...

Guess somebody messed up for this case.

[mason55]

Interestingly even in your link you can see that most of the money values (subtotal, total_fare, total_charged) are strings but for some reason total_owed is a float.

Presumably someone messed up but it wasn't caught in code review.

[vivan]

In this case, the value is the "surge_multiplier", which is indeed a float: https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/e...