>>>>> Craig Earls <enderw88-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org> writes:
> I was playing around with numerical value expressions in postings and found > some interesting behavior. > Behavior #1: > Assets:401K (1 QQQQ * 7.456) > Results in 7 shares of QQQQ being reported. > Assets:401K (1.0 QQQQ * 7.456) > Results in 7.5 shares of QQQQ being reported > Behavior #2: > Assets:401K (1 QQQQ * 7.58/85.88) > Results in an unbalance error since the second number rounds to zero. > Ledger uses the number of significant figures describe the commodity, > ignoring other figures in the calculation I am using no other formatting > suggestions in my ledger command. I would expect it would use the largest > number of significant figures available in the calculation. So If my > expectations are correct, this should be a bug. If not I will add this > behavior to the documentation. This is a bug. Within parenthesized amounts, all precision should be both used and ignored for display (that is, it won't affect future display of amounts of that commodity type). John
