That's not mangling the data, it's presenting the exact value of 11102.12/1975.10, a number that isn't representable as a decimal without rounding.
As for the display being clever, of course it isn't, it's a computer. But it you enter the two values 11102.12 and 1975.10 GnuCash shouldn't change them, it should just calculate the ratio and present that as the price, either exactly as 5 + 61331/98755 or as 5.621041972558352 rounded to however many decimal places. When I test that, it's exactly what I get, see the attached screen shot. Note the exact exchange rate in the exchange rate box but the rounded decimal values to the right of it. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 19, 2020, at 12:12 PM, Paul Abraham <p...@acasa.org.uk> wrote: > > Hmm. That seems to work, but it certainly isn't what I want. The > exchange rate is now shown as "5 + 61331/98755" which is less than > helpful - it most certainly is not how real world exchange rates are > quoted, and it makes comparison almost impossible! > > Why does the display option mangle the data? That isn't very clever. I > think I'll just stick in a fudge factor as a separate split to correct > the total though it's a long way from ideal. > > Thanks very much for the answer, though. I can stop chasing moonbeams > now ;-) _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
