[GNC] gnucash version 4.6 precission issue in price

[David Carlson]

Just noted in another thread.  See
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798219


On Sat, Jul 3, 2021, 4:41 PM D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I seem to recall a bug about this in recent days, but cannot locate it
> now.
> On Jul 3, 2021, 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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>>
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