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Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

4 pointsby lasgawetoday at 5:09 PM1 commentview on HN

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lasgawetoday at 5:09 PM

I wrote about a practical approach to converting AI token usage into credits without floating-point arithmetic. The key insight is using multi-layered integer scaling (price scaling × credit conversion × per-million-token base) to maintain precision across millions of transactions.