[GNC] problem setting the price of a share

[David Carlson]

 Christian Pinedo Zamalloa

You have discovered that it is impossible to have all three values shares,
price and total exactly as reported by your broker because he usually has
to round off one of the numbers.  The solution is to let GnuCash set the
price after you enter the number of shares and the total amount.  Actually,
GnuCash is closer to being correct than your broker is.

You have also discovered that in release 3.3 GnuCash shows the number of
shares in fractional format, which has the technical advantage of being
very accurate, if very hard to read.  I believe that in the future GnuCash
may be changed back to show the number of shares in decimal format to be
easier to read, if less accurate.

David C



On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 4:16 AM Christian Pinedo Zamalloa <
chr.pinedo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have problems to set the correct price of a share that I am selling.
>
> I try to put the value "128,181208053691" which is automatically converted
> by GnuCash when i push enter key to "128 + 64/377" whose real value is
> "128,169761". Furthermore, I checked if I insert value "1", it is
> automatically converted by GnuCash to value "1+3/377" (1,007958).
>
> I don't know how to solve this mesh. Am I doing something wrong?
>
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