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		crabmusket on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Abstractions: our API design principle This isn't sufficient to represent prices which often include fractional amounts of cents in non-retail scenarios. Think of AWS server prices per hour.

krainboltgreene on April 25, 2024 [–]

Funny, because that's exactly what Stripe does (https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/pr...)

crabmusket on April 27, 2024 | [–]

But those are decimal values, not integers. I didn't mean that using cents as a unit was insufficient, I meant that using integers was.

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