6 digit decimal stock purchase

[Edward Doolittle]

I successfully use six digits for my pension fund, so I know it's possible.

One minor irritation, though: trailing zeros are just chopped off, so
0.123450 will display as 0.12345. I generally expect a column of numbers to
align at the decimal point; leaving trailing zeros in place would
accomplish that.

E

On 11 August 2015 at 15:07, Michael Carpino <mfcarpino at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked the ledger width and it looked fine.  I widened it even further
> and it still changes it to only 5 digits.  Yes it will round.  To clarify
> my issue is with the number of shares.  I entered the shares from my
> statement which is 1.083842 then enter the dividend amount which is $16.47
> hit the enter key and boom it changes to 1.08384 and it drops the 2.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:40 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Aug 11, 2015, at 7:12 PM, Michael Carpino <mfcarpino at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > If you're referring to the fraction traded.  I tried that and it is
> > actually set at 1/100000000 but when I input the shares in the ledger it
> > changes 1.123456 to 1.12345 when I enter it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Michael Carpino <mfcarpino at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > One of my stock investments will reinvest dividends to 6 digits with
> the
> >> > decimal.  That would be 2.123456 however it apears that GnuCash will
> >> only
> >> > go out to 5 digits.  Does anyone know if 6 digits can be accomplished?
> >>
> >> Yes, you set that 3 digits when you created the stock. You can use
> >> Tools>Security Editor to change it.
> >>
> >
> > Please remember to copy the list when you reply using “reply all” or if
> > your client supports it “reply list”.
> >
> > Yes, fraction traded is the GUI name in the security editor. Internally
> > it’s called the “smallest commodity unit” or SCU. It’s clamped at 1000000
> > so although you can enter a larger number it won’t use it. Are you sure
> > that the column width is sufficient to show all of the digits? I’d expect
> > 1.12346 if it was rounding 1.123456. Was this a test where you entered a
> > dividend of 1.00 and a price of .89011051612?
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
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Edward Doolittle
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First Nations University of Canada
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