Thanks, that is what I needed. Don
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:12:00PM -0700, john wrote: > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
