GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720561
GnuCash does not support 10 decimals on mutual funds
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:22:42 UTC
Starting from this year, some mutual funds keep track of units up to 10 decimals (1/10000000000). GnuCash only accepts 8 decimals (1/100000000).
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. Out of curiosity, what mutual funds? 100 pico-unit resolution seems absurd. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 657402 ***
Strainu wrote to me in mail: Thanks for helping with this bug. I don't know exactly how GnuCash development works, but perhaps the title of the Bitcoin bug it was duplicated to should be changed to be more general? Regarding your question about which mutual fund has 10 decimals, there is a small asset management firm in Romania, called Banca Transilvania Asset Management [1] which started computing the values with 10 decimals from last June. This is not mentioned on their public website, only in the private account documents. On public websites such as bloomberg [2] I see only 2 decimals are shown. Regards, Strainu [1] http://www.btam.ro [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BTCLASC:RO
Please use the bug report for all discussions about the bug. I don't see anything in the English version of the BTAM website that says anything about the fraction or precision that they trade; Bloomberg is quoting the price of 1 unit in RON, which is of course only to two decimal digits. I suppose the number of digits is mentioned somewhere in the prospectus, but that's in a language I can't read. Would you have noticed the other bug if it hadn't said "Bitcoin"?
> that's in a language I can't read. No Latin at school? Then perhaps you should use the Union Jack button in the upper right corner. ;-) But on a first glimpse I couldn't find something relevant.
I had 3 years of Latin in school, 45 years ago. There's still a little of it rattling around, but not enough to read. Anyway, Romanian doesn't look any more like Latin to me than do French, Italian, or Spanish, so I'm not sure that remembering would help a whole lot. ;-)
Reassign version to 2.4.x so that individual 2.4 versions can be retired.
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