> On Sep 21, 2021, at 11:47 AM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (I am using ver 4.6 flatpak)
>
> In the securities register for one of my mutual fund accounts I
> double-clicked on the "Price" column expecting it to resize that column
> to fit the prices shown. Instead it changed the contents of the price
> entries to show a formula
>
> 10 + 170200/704349
>
> I want to change it back but cannot find a way to do that.
>
> Oddly, if I select one of the price fields that one changes to show the
> decimal price to 9 decimal places but when I leave that field it goes back
> to showing the formula.
That's not a formula, it is the exact representation of the price, a value that
cannot be expressed as a decimal without rounding. You can force decimal
display of prices with the checkbox at the top of the page on
Preferences>Numbers, Date, Time. The number of decimal places is hard-coded to
2 more than the currency's smallest currency unit (or the smaller of the two in
the case of an exchange rate between two currencies). That's 2 in most
currencies.
Note that while that price was probably created from a split and is the exact
ratio of the amount and value of the split, changing it won't affect the price
of the split itself: The pricedb is used for reporting, not for balancing.
Note as well that if you enter a price to nine decimals by hand it will either
display as a fraction or rounded to the number of decimals according to the
smallest-currency-unit =2 rule. Internally it's always the exact fraction.
Regards,
John Ralls
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