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- [The README files](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asimonmichael%2Fhledger+path%3A**%2FREADME*&type=code&ref=advsearch)
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- [The high-level developer docs](https://hledger.org/dev.html)
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== Miscellaneous notes
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=== Precision and rounding
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Numeric amounts in hledger are represented by "Decimal",
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plus additional information like a "CommoditySymbol"
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and an "AmountStyle" for display.
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Together these form hledger's "Amount" type.
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In hledger docs, "precision" means the number of digits to the right of the decimal mark.
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Amounts have several precisions we can talk about:
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- __Journal precision__ - the number of decimal digits recorded in the journal file / input data.
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We accept up to 255 decimal digits there.
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- __Internal precision__ - the number of decimal digits stored internally in each Decimal value (after calling normalizeDecimal).
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Decimal supports up to 255 decimal digits.
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In amounts parsed from the journal, this will be the same as their journal precision.
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In amounts generated from calculations, internal precision may increase, and will not decrease.
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- __Display precision__ - the number of decimal digits to be displayed in output ("AmountPrecision");
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this is part of the AmountStyle stored within each Amount.
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Immediately after parsing, this is the same as the journal and internal precisions;
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later it gets normalised, for consistent appearance.
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When display precision is less than the internal precision, fewer, rounded decimal digits are displayed ("rounding").
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When display precision is greater than the internal precision, additional decimal zeros are displayed ("padding").
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We use the term "display rounding" for applying a target display precision to an existing amount,
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This can be done more or less forcefully, according to a "display rounding strategy", represented by the "Rounding" type.
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This is stored within each AmountStyle for convenience, though semantically speaking it is not part of the amount.
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The rounding strategies are:
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- none - leave the amount's display precision unchanged
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- soft - add or remove trailing decimal zeros to approximate the target precision, but don't remove significant digits
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- hard - use the exact target precision, possibly rounding and hiding significant digits
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- all - do hard rounding of both the main amount and its cost amount (costs are normally not display-rounded).
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Here is when display rounding happens:
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1. After reading a journal,
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all amounts have the standard commodity styles applied, but no display rounding is done.
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(still needed ? seems so)
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2. After reading a journal, when checking each transaction for balancedness,
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the transaction amounts are hard-rounded, temporarily, before calculating their sum.
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(We'd like to update this to use local transaction precisions only.)
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3. Just before rendering report (since 1.31 or so).
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Most reports do hard rounding; @print@ (and maybe other print-like commands ?)
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can do any of the rounding strategies.
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-}
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module Hledger (
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