[GNC] GnuCash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

FWIW, Jeff reported his problem in 2014, and was happy when Derek advised him to enter the number of shares and the total dollar amount of the transaction, leaving the price to be calculated. I'm not sure whose problem is being solved by this drawn out discussion. 

⁣David T. ​

On Oct 8, 2023, 12:15 PM, at 12:15 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Because the broker charged 15,000.00 for 1,377.41 shares?
>
>On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 2:32 AM Fred Bone <Fred at mandfb.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 08 October 2023 at 1:06, Bruce McCoy said:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > What I do not yet understand is if GnuCash considers a price per
>share of
>> > 10.89 to be a precise figure, why GnuCash does not calculate
>1,377.41 *
>> > 10.89 = 15,000.00 for Jeff. If GnuCash doesn’t, would we consider
>making
>> > a change to GnuCash to allow it?
>>
>> There is no good reason to think that 1377.41 * 10.89 = 15000, so why
>> would anyone want Gnucash to say it?
>>
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