I committed to the GnuCash codebase pretty regularly in the 1999-2002 era... I think maybe I actually implemented the fractional representation that the article discusses? Not sure, it was a long time ago! I definitely remember receiving some very heated emails about how this was total nonsense and there was no reason to do anything other than a decimal representation. The phrase "a superhighway of abstraction, leading nowhere" has stuck with me for lo these many years :) good times

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vitalikpie an hour ago | parent [-]

Thanks for the info! But did you guys thought about fractional commodities those days? Or was it clear that it is going away?

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bgribble an hour ago | parent [-]

I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings and transactions.

	▲	vitalikpie an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In hindsight do you think it was an right decision or too "pure"?