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journal: balance assertion/precision doc tweaks (#941)

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### Assertions and precision
A commodity directive which limits the display precision, can affect assertions.
A [commodity directive](http://hledger.org/journal.html#declaring-commodities)
which limits the display precision, can affect assertions.
In general, hledger balance assertions should pass or fail as you would
expect from visual inspection and manual summing of the amounts shown
in reports and error messages.
expect from doing visual inspection and manual arithmetic with the amounts
shown in reports and error messages, ie at display precision.
More specifically, assertions pass if the difference between asserted
More specifically, currently assertions pass if the difference between asserted
and actual amounts appears to be zero, when rendered to the greater of
the standard display precision and the asserted amount's precision.
Here are some examples of this in action.
Asserting the exact balance: