Stocks, gains/losses, do I really have to calculate them by hand?

[Eric Morey]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 15:07 +0200, Fredrik Persson wrote:
> Can you explain what you mean when you say "gnucash will do calculations
> for you in numeric fields"? 

I'm sure he means that gnucash will, for example, fill the field with 10
if you type 2*5 into the field, thus relieving you of having to do the
calculation yourself (possibly with the aid of a separate calculator)
and entering the result, 10, into the field.