Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-08-21 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Bruce: Welcome to the gnucash-user email list! Hopefully we can give you some useful answers. I will answer based on what I have heard developers say on the list, and what I see in my stock transactions in GnuCash, though I have not read the relevant GnuCash source code. On 2023-08-21 10:21,

Re: [GNC] Update F::Q in flatpak GC?

2023-08-21 Thread john
The list of sources in the Security Edit dialog is hard coded and not often updated. Entries are grayed out if the item isn't found in the list of sources retrieved from F::Q at start up, which at preset is a lot of them. Sources that are in the F::Q list but don't have a hardcoded entry get add

[GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-08-21 Thread Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user
Bruce, please include the user list in your replies.  Then others are kept in the loop.  I am copying your reply here this time. Also, I am at my computer with a real keyboard so I will hopefully avoid fat finger mistakes.  Your rhetorical questions do not have good answers.  Historically, there

Re: [GNC] David: gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-08-21 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 1:03 PM Bruce McCoy wrote: > David. > > Thanks for your response. You are right. gnucash usually matches the > brokers' reports and it does calculate the price given the number of shares > and the total currency, and internally gnucash has more precision in its > calculat

Re: [GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-08-21 Thread David Carlson
The developers can give you a more detailed answer, but in fact GnuCash carries much more prrcision inyernally. To get the best results, enter number of shares and total currency then let GnuCash calculate the price. That usually allows GnuCash reports To mstch your brokers reports. On Mon, Aug

[GNC] gnucash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-08-21 Thread Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user
Greetings to all of you,   Ingnucash, you have developed a wonderful program. Thank you.   Greatis my anticipation for using it, although there is at least one areaI do not understand. Could you please help me comprehend what ishappening in the calculations of gnucash compared with thecalc

Re: [GNC] Update F::Q in flatpak GC?

2023-08-21 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
Still one problem (perhaps better handled on the F::Q mailing list): My main reason for wanting to update F::Q is that I saw that SIX.pm had been updated. However, in GC (flatpak) 5.3+ with the updates to the PM scripts mentioned below, the Securities Editor still shows the obsolete SIXfunds