Inferring unit cost from a total amount

[Samuel Lotz]

I have statements from an inheritance in which I know I have a certain number of shares of an asset but I don't know the cost these were obtained at and I was hoping to use something like the deprecated {{total cost}} syntax.

I found this issue https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues/369
but I didn't quite understand how to use the alternative { # commodity} syntax and this isn't documented AFAICT.

Any ideas besides just calculating it manually (which in the end isn't that big of a deal for these few accounts).

Also not sure why that issue got closed as the deprecated syntax is still on the cheatsheet.

[Ben Blount]

I'm not sure what level of deprecation the total cost syntax has, but using that seems like a pretty decent solution.

You can also do math just about anywhere where a number is accepted, so you could do this AFAIK:

Assets:Bank 100 FOO { 5000 / 100 USD }

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[Samuel Lotz]

Deprecation is noted from Blais in the issue. I also tested it and it didn't work.

That is also a good suggestion of doing the math inline, thank you.