[GNC] gnucash version 4.6 precission issue in price

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I seem to recall a bug about this in recent days, but cannot locate it now. 

On Jul 3, 2021, 16:12, at 16:12, s310310 at gmail.com wrote:
>hi David,
>
>thanks for the reply,
>
>I tried to change the precision as you noted. but it didn't help
>
>some more info:
>I am not using the online quotes option. I enter the prices manually
>every
>weekend.
>The issue started with version 4.6. in version 4.5 I didn't experience
>any
>issue and it is the same gnucash file (no new stocks/bonds have been
>added
>for a while now).
>As a matter of fact, I have reinstalled version 4.5 and it works fine
>with 4.5.
>
>BR,
>Shay
>
>
>
>On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 10:37 PM David Carlson
><david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> In the  price database the precision is individually set for each
>currency
>> or commodity.  That is defined in the securities database using the
>> Security editor, normally when you initially define the currency or
>> security, tho you can change it later.  If you are at the stage of
>entering
>> a transaction where you need a price to complete the transaction, it
>is
>> usually easiest to enter the number of shares and total value and let
>> GnuCash calculate the price.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 2:19 PM <s310310 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> in the price database tool, I am trying to set a price of 1.0079 but
>it
>>> "corrects" me to 1.01
>>> a value of 1.0001 becomes 1
>>>
>>> I tried to change the preferences -> numbers -> decimal point to
>4/5/6
>>> places, and also remove the "force prices to display as decimals"
>>> but it didn't work
>>>
>>> What am I missing? Is there a bug?
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Shay
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