Quite so. I haven't experimented to find out if Gnugash rounds to nearest or strictly up or down.
Using the up and down cursor keys to select each row invokes the error-trapping routine that I haven't seen in other programs - Sage Line 50 for example, when I have spent many 'happy' hours going crossed eyed. It is an excellent feature, and when you choose 'Jump to the other account', there they all are, highlighted. Now I know about it this will be my first 'go-to' when checking for such future discrepancies. On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 01:57, Michael or Penny Novack < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Further investigation found that in the 'Edit Account' panel, the > 'Smallest > > fraction' was set at '1' on this particular account, and the amount was > > being rounded up on one side, causing the mismatch. Setting the 'Smallest > > fraction' to 'Use Commodity Value' and running 'Repair All' sorted the > > problem. > > > > I hope the above may be a solution for someone and save them time, if not > > hair. > > It bears repeating, as soon as rounding is involved, exactly in balance > goes out the window. It is simply a reality of mathematics that rounded > A + rounded B is not necessarily equal to rounded (A + B). Your problem > could exist even if both sides were rounded/ > > LOL -- in my working days, one of the things I did a number of times was > calculate the value of the "fuzz" (the maximum discrepancy between > calculations done in different order as a result of limits in > precision/rounding --- so the computer program would consider the two > equal if the difference were less than "fuzz"). And those of us doing > calculations in science/engineering know that the order in which we do > them can have a great effect on the possible "error" << so we choose the > order of calculations that minimizes that >> > > In its original form. double entry bookkeeping could demand exact > balance because the only operation was addition/subtraction and no > rounding involved. > > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
