Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread David Carlson
John, Did you find a reference to floating point in my last message? If so it was obsolete or inadvertent, as I know enough of the history of GnuCash to know that GnuCash never has and never will go there and why. There may have been something in one of the bug reports that I cited, but I also k

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
If instead of a mailing list it was a social network, I just would like your reply! Thanks again for your input and references, -- Christian Pinedo Zamalloa (zako) Sent from my mobile device, please excuse brevity or typos El mié., 19 sept. 2018 1:22, David Carlson escribió: > There have been s

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
No, GnuCash has never, ever, stored any number in floating point. Stored numbers in GnuCash have been rationals from the very beginning. It was changed in 2.6.8 to always round prices for display so that they’d always appear in decimal form to the user, but the code that did it was overwhelmed b

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread David Carlson
There have been several discussions over the years around various aspects of the topics of numeric accuracy, displaying accurate values vs easily readable values, whether GnuCash records do or do not match brokers' reports or newspaper stock price listings, and even whether the GnuCash price databa

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa > wrote: > > Hi David, > > At the end I was able to get properly the price by skipping it and letting > to GnuCash to calculate it as you suggested. However, I think that this > might be a kind of bug, because if I insert the price in

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
Hi David, At the end I was able to get properly the price by skipping it and letting to GnuCash to calculate it as you suggested. However, I think that this might be a kind of bug, because if I insert the price in decimal format, it shouldn't be modified and the total amount should be calculated a

[GNC] Can't save counter number format

2018-09-18 Thread Ndimi Bodika
Hi, Using gnucash Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24), on windows 10 I've been trying to format my invoice numbers on the counters using different fomats without success, tried "2018 - %05li", "2018 - %05lli", "2018 - %05lu" , etc ... I also noticed that it is not saving the format in the counters tab eith

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-09-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Roger, Glad to see you resolved the discrepancy. I too have had to resort to completely re-entering some transactions in a few cases. Thank you for documenting this for posterity. Also, consider the utility of the Receivable Aging Report if you haven’t looked at it already. It can also show cu

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-09-18 Thread rmomxtx
Adrien, In August I asked about a disconnect between the balance on the customer overview and the balance on the customer statement. Your answer is below. Just now getting around to fixing the problem. For your amazement and amusement and for anyone else who encounters a similar problem, here a