roundoff problem

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Beth Leonard <beth at oasis.slimy.com>:

> 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:

There are some places in the register code where is limits you to 1/10^6
which is effectively 5 decimal places.  Internally it can store more
precise numbers, but it wont necessarily display it.  Check your
account settings and see if you have it set up to display an appropriate
number of significant digits.

-derek

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