Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

[Clark Jones]

Rob Walker wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:18:28 -0700, Clark Jones
> >>>>> <jones@inficad.com> said:
> 
> Clark> Bill Gribble wrote: [...]
> 
> >> 1. gnc_commodity knows about the smallest possible transactional
> >> unit for trading the commodity (for example, 1/100 of a US Dollar
> >> or 1/1000 of a mutual fund share).
> 
> Clark> I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill
> Clark> establishing the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas
> Clark> Jefferson) defines the "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a
> Clark> U.S. Dollar -- though the only places where you're likely to
> Clark> run into it is at the gas pump and calculating real estate
> Clark> taxes.  (The same act established a number of other interesting
> Clark> things, too, though they're not relevant to the current
> Clark> discussion.)
> 
> got an URL to that interesting stuff?
> 
> rob

Unfortunately I don't have it handy.  I'm not sure I actually saw it on the
net, but I'll try to see tomorrow if I have a bookmark at the office.  If
so, I'll post it here.

						Clark
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