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by kyrra 1819 days ago
Googler, opinions are my own.

Over in payments, we use micros regularly, as documented here: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/gl...

GCP on there other hand has standardized on unit + nano. They use this for money and time. So unit would 1 second or 1 dollar, then the nano field allows more precision. You can see an example here with the unitPrice field: https://cloud.google.com/billing/v1/how-tos/catalog-api#gett...