fractional amount?

[Jean-David Beyer]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.hn.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>Gnucash told me I have a bill still to pay; I've paid it, so I'm entering it. 
>>The amount is 47.64. It changed it to "47 + 16 / 25". Any idea why?
> 
> 
> Well, first, did you pay via "Process Payment"?
> 
> Second, 0.64 == 16/25, so the question is why is it printing in the
> shares format instead of decimal format?  I dont know why -- I've
> never seen this behavior.  Where do you see it?  in which interface?
> 
I do not know about elsewhere, but I thought the U.S. stock markets 
switched to decimal prices a few years ago. I have not seen fractions in a 
long time.

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