Thanks Allan, I can easily just leave it at say -123.32/100 and it will work too but was hoping to work more like KMM and I can't figure out how you jumped from the 12352/100 to 6266/50 then down to 3133/25.
Did you just get the GCD and then divide by that? Eric On Oct 9, 2012 5:44 PM, "Allan" <agande...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/10/12 22:11, Eric Bonney wrote: > >> Hi Thomas: >> >> Thanks for taking the time to give me such a detailed explanation! Can >> you maybe walk me through a few examples that I can try and use as a >> reference? I finally can see that what I should have been doing from the >> start is take the fraction that is stored in the balance column and just >> do the division on that to come up with my correct "value". That is >> simple enough and really I am not sure how I missed it. >> >> What I can't figure out, even after trying to apply your explanation, is >> how I am seeing values like below in my balance columns. >> >> balance balanceFormatted >> -3133/25 -125.32 >> 726071/50 14521.42 >> 66919/25 2676.76 >> >> Since I know most of the time I have the actual value from the user as a >> string, how to I take that value and apply the formatMoney() methods to >> get to the fraction side? I am struggling trying to take my -125.32 and >> returning the fraction of -3133/25. >> >> If you can walk me through some of these that would be fantastic! >> >> Thanks again for all the help. >> -Eric >> > > I'm not an expert, but in case Thomas is tied up, this seems to be a > possibility. > > Multiply by 100 to eliminate the decimal fraction (Can't remember, if I > ever knew, the proper maths terminology). > > 125.32 = 125.32 * 100/100 = 12532/100 = 6266/50 = 3133/25 > > 14521.42 = 14521.42 * 100/100 = 1452142/100 = 726071/50 > > If that makes it more confusing, apologies. > > Allan > ______________________________**_________________ > KMyMoney-devel mailing list > KMyMoney-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/kmymoney-devel<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel> >
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