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Let's take the following company. The current ETH Balance is 268,691.327038426 Ether:

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But API response 268698327038426745609145:

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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 $).

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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. Commented Oct 30, 2016 at 20:45
  • divide by 10^18 or just count 18 digit from right then take the rest as balance in Ether Commented Oct 30, 2016 at 20:51
  • ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/4194/… Commented Oct 30, 2016 at 21:01
  • Could you point me where the documentation describes that all values returned in wei units? Commented Oct 31, 2016 at 7:13
  • re: documentation JSON RPC API eth_getBalance and web3 JavaScript API web3.eth.getBalance Commented Oct 31, 2016 at 16:25

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