Is it possible to abbreviate very large numbers? Using megs (M), kilos (K), etc? (EOM)

[Felipe Mica]

Thank you.

[Martin Michlmayr]

Not that I'm aware of, but I'm not 100% sure.

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[Felipe Mica]

When working with cryptocurrencies, something like that:

203,320,244,020,398,298 DOGE can be very common.

It would be useful an option like --shorten-huge-numbers and change this to:

203,320.24T DOGE

Or maybe the solution could be create another commodity and use the C directive as you said in the other email.

Thank you for all your replies.

[Fergus Cameron]

You MIGHT use a commodity. For example, M_USD for millions of dollars ... that's not a problem I face :-) ... and I realize it's not a direct correlation to your question but maybe it's useful in some context

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[Colin Dean]

You should be able to use commodity equivalencies to solve this problem to a degree, but it won't be automatic based on the magnitude in context, only whatever you set as the exchange, I think.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commodity-equivalences

[Felipe Mica]

Thank you guys. I could manage that with this:

commodity BTC
  note Bitcoin
  format 1,000.00000000 BTC

commodity bit
  format 1,000.00 bit

commodity SAT
  note Satoshis
  format 1,000 SAT

C 1.00000000 BTC = 100,000,000 SAT
C 1.00 bit = 100 SAT
C 1.00000000 BTC = 1,000,000.00 bit

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "CD" == Colin Dean <c...@cad.cx> writes:

CD> You should be able to use commodity equivalencies to solve this problem to
CD> a degree, but it won't be automatic based on the magnitude in context,
CD> only whatever you set as the exchange, I think.

Actually, it should adjust the magnitude dependent on context, this is how the
automated conversions to hours, minutes and seconds work for time values. Just
use something like this:

C 1 KB = 1000 B
C 1 MB = 1000 KB
C 1 GB = 1000 MB
etc.

It should then pick whichever one can be reported at a value of 1 or more.

John

[Felipe Mica]

This works for a while:

C 1.00000000 BTC = 100,000,000 SAT
C 1.00 bit = 100 SAT
C 1.00000000 BTC = 1,000,000.00 bit

But then the ledger-cli made a mess of commodity conversions. Even if I use the option --exchange BRL if I put this equivalence lines the ledger-cli just ignores the conversion price I put.

Take this file as an example:

P 2021-09-01 00:00:00 BTC 256103,91738800 R$

2021-09-17 * Opening Balance
    My Wallet                             1,00000000 BTC
    Equity:Opening Balances

When I run:

ledger -f draft.ledger bal --exchange=R$

I get the expected result:

           R$-256104  Equity:Opening Balances
            R$256104  My Wallet
--------------------
                   0

But if I add the equivalence of the commodity BTC, as follow:

C 1.00000000 BTC = 100,000,000 SAT
C 1.00 bit = 100 SAT
C 1.00000000 BTC = 1,000,000.00 bit

P 2021-09-01 00:00:00 BTC 256103,91738800 R$

2021-09-17 * Opening Balance
    My Wallet                             1,00000000 BTC
    Equity:Opening Balances

The result of:

ledger -f draft.ledger bal --exchange=R$

is surprisingly:

     -1,00000000 BTC  Equity:Opening Balances
      1,00000000 BTC  My Wallet
--------------------
                   0

The ledger-cli starts to ignore the conversion.

It seems a bug behavior.

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "FM" == Felipe Mica <mica...@gmail.com> writes:

FM> The ledger-cli starts to ignore the conversion.
FM> It seems a bug behavior.

I agree that this sounds like a bug. --exchange should always take priority,
if a conversion exists into your desired display commodity.

John