On Monday 10 August 2015 16:27:40 John Ralls wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Geert Janssens > > I seem to remember that banks here use 6 significant digits in > > exchange rates, which is not quite the same as 6 places after the > > decimal point. Your USD-Sao Tomean Dobra illustrates this: due to > > the extreme value difference between the two you need 10 digits > > after the decimal point, but only 6 of them are significant (ie not > > a leading zero). > > > > Is this something our gnc_numeric code supports and can be used by > > the price db ? > > We have “significant digits” rounding code, but IIRC it’s really six > decimal places. If we were to have real significant digits we’d need > to be careful to keep it away from the debits-and-credits code or it > could make a real mess. >
I'm probably slow here. What mess would that create ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
