roundoff problem

[Beth Leonard]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:00:54PM -0700, Mark Johnson wrote:
> I have an employee stock purchase plan where the share fraction is a 
> millionth of a share.  However, the display of the shares account is 
> displaying only 5 decimal places.  The commodity is set to the correct 
> fraction.  The account is also set to the correct fraction.
> 
> Ichecked the .xac file and the correct values are being stored for the 
> purchase splits.  It is only that they are being displayed incorrectly.
> 
> I am using 1.8.11.  Was this a bug that was fixed in 1.8.12?  Or a new 
> one?  It would be nice to know before going to the trouble of upgrading.

I haven't checked for stock purchases, but there are some
rounding abnormalities in some parts of gnucash:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user/10784/
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user/13986/

Would these explain what you are seeing?

I do not believe these issues were changed between 1.8.11 and 1.8.12.

--Beth 
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