Miniscule Share Residuals

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 29, 2016, at 4:47 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Next question regarding commodity data in my GnuCash file. 
> 
> I ran a simple SQL query against the SQLite db to count up the total number of shares by commodity, and I ran into several commodities whose share total was in the range of  9.9475983006414e-14. I know that there was a discussion some time back about the vagaries of rounding, and I wonder whether I should attempt to clean up these inconsistencies and if so, how I should do that.

David,

What does GnuCash show as the residual value in those accounts?

That number looks like you might have converted the rational numbers into floats, either in your query or in your post-processing. Don't do that, use rational arithmetic.

Regards,
John Ralls