Discrepancy in embeddings precision

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Using the Python library provided by OpenAI, embeddings requests return floats with up to 18 decimal places of precision. Using other methods (curl, hyper/reqwest) only returns floats with half the level of precision.

Anyone should be able to reproduce this by simply copy/pasting the example request provided in the documentation:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": "The food was delicious and the waiter...",
       "model": "text-embedding-ada-002"}'

vs

import os
import openai
openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
openai.Embedding.create(
  model="text-embedding-ada-002",
  input="The food was delicious and the waiter..."
)

Unless there is something that I’m missing (quite possible), this would seem to be a pretty big problem for anyone interested in using or building a library outside of the one provided in Python.

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