I do not even see this as a bug. Any number without a decimal point is divided by 100. Which makes the input “20.44/2” in fact 20.44/0.02 which is 1,022.00
Cheers, Christoph > Am 26.07.2017 um 09:58 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel > <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>: > > Sumit, > As I understand it, the example you gave (560 becomes 5.60) is intended > behavior. And, as far as I am concerned, the explanation in the help is > sufficient, if not inspiring. > It seems to me the problem in the underlying bug is that the decimal > algorithm needs to be applied after any calculations, but that is not how > it's being done. The age of the bug suggests that the feature is not heavily > used, or that users have worked around the oddity. > David > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:50, Sumit Bhardwaj<bhardw...@gmail.com > <mailto:bhardw...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, > > In an attempt to fix a long-standing bug ( > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120940), I looked at the code > and have a question on intended behavior of automatic decimal point. > > From the doc (http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=help), I see this > description for automatic decimal point. >> *Automatic Decimal Point:* This option will automatically insert a > decimal point into numbers you type in. > > It's not clear from the help that "560" will be converted to "5.60" with > automatic decimal points set to 2. Is that the intended behavior? If so, > should we edit the help? > > There is a bug in handling the fractions when auto-decimal points. I can > try to fix that, but wanted to get the developers' take on the intended > behavior first. > > Thanks, > Sumit > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
