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## Commodity display style
For each commodity, hledger chooses a consistent style to use when
displaying amounts. (Except [price amounts](#prices), which are always
For the amounts in each commodity, hledger chooses a consistent display style.
(Excluding [price amounts](#prices), which are always
displayed as written). The display style is chosen as follows:
- If there is a [commodity directive](#declaring-commodities) (or
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- or, the style of the first posting amount in the journal,
with the first-seen digit group style and the maximum-seen number of decimal places.
If reports are showing amounts in a way you don't like (eg, with too many decimal places),
use a [commodity directive](#declaring-commodities) to set your preferred style.
So if your reports are showing amounts in a way you don't like, eg
with too many decimal places,
use a [commodity directive](#declaring-commodities) to set the commodity's display style.
For example:
```journal
# declare euro, dollar and bitcoin commodities and set their display styles:
commodity EUR 1.000,
commodity $1000.00
commodity 1000.00000000 BTC
```
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