Rounding errors?

[Des Dougan]

Des Dougan wrote:
> I'm seeing what appears to be a rounding error when applying GST to a 
> vendor's bill. In BC, GST is 5%; when it is applied to a bill of 
> $2583.74, GC shows the tax as $129.18 instead of $129.19, which is what 
> it should round to ($129.187 is the actual result), per the vendor's 
> bill and two separate calculators I tried.
> 
> Is this a known issue, or should it be raised in Bugzilla?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Des
> 

Sorry to reply to my own post. This is GnuCash 2.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.4.

I also just saw an instance of GC rounding up incorrectly:

64.45 * 0.05 = 3.2225

GC entered this as $3.23.

Des

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