Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

Jason Rennie jrennie@ai.mit.edu
Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:25:25 -0400


bmbuck@14850.com said:
> I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities.  You
> can't  add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible.

Is it true that you would *never* want to add/subtract such 
commodities?  I can't think of any cases where you would want to, but 
should we building this assumption into our underlying data 
representation?

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