Let's take the following company. The current ETH Balance is 268,691.327038426 Ether:
But API response 268698327038426745609145:
As you can see API response does't contain floating point so the balance value is very big.
Is it bug?
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it isn't a bug the balance is returned in weis not in The Ethers.
chek one of many conversion tools: https://etherconverter.online/
268705.32703842675 Ether = 268705327038426745609145 wei
the "," is used to separate three digits (look at the amount in $).
answered Oct 30, 2016 at 20:20
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Thanks for the response. Could please help how can I convert wei -> Eth by using API? The thing is I need to display balance in my site and I can't do convertion by hand.– ErikOct 30, 2016 at 20:45
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divide by 10^18 or just count 18 digit from right then take the rest as balance in Ether– Badr Bellaj ♦Oct 30, 2016 at 20:51
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Could you point me where the documentation describes that all values returned in wei units?– ErikOct 31, 2016 at 7:13
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re: documentation JSON RPC API eth_getBalance and web3 JavaScript API web3.eth.getBalance Oct 31, 2016 at 16:25