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[GavJ]

Is it just me, or is there no obvious reason why anything higher would ever be necessary?  Are people out there setting manager orders for exactly 113 beds, where either 110 or 120 would destroy the fort, and stocks precise to 3 significant digits are essential?  What's the point?  Especially since early on, it ties up a valuable founding dwarf's time otherwise for no good reason.

[miauw62]

Well...
Is there a reason why we smash babies into the ground after a fall from 10z-levels?

[geoduck]

It doesn't have to be one of the founders. I wait until the second wave arrives and try to pick out the most otherwise-useless arrival to be the bookkeeper.

[SRD]

Trains up their book-keeping skill, making them count things faster.

[Count Dorku]

I find that having a precise count of how much everything there is in my fort gratifies my OCD tendencies. Something about "2000?" stocks just irks me in ways I can't explain.

[Deathworks]

Hello!

Well, the detailed listing in the stocks menu are only available if your precision is higher than the number of items in question. So, if you want to check on the details of things that you have in large amounts - stones, wood, yet-to-be-melten goblinite, having the precise figures may give you a major advantage when trying to evaluate your current situation.

With clothing now again being active, this may even become more important as the clothes worn and claimed by the dwarves are also affecting the precise numbers.

Yours,
Deathworks

P.S.: IIRC, you can zoom to individual items via the detailed stock list. This may be useful if you have designated all goblinite you have found for melting but still find something in the detailed stock list which is not designated (maybe a goblin ambusher who got sliced and diced by a weapon trap you have all but forgotten, or who drowned in a drainable channel).

[Jingles]

You need precision in order to manipulate object states through the z menu.  It makes making a building of Bauxite blocks a lot easier for instance if you forbid all building materials except bauxite blocks.  Unless you like scrolling through countless amounts of logs, blocks, bars, babies, and whatever else may be used to make a wall or floor. each and every time an additional section needs designating.

[kaijyuu]

Idlers: 67

Turning precision to max lowers that number to 66.

[EmperorJon]

Logs. About 1000? What are they. I dunno. Oak? Maybe the odd tower cap?

I want to know exactly what I have in my fort...

Bars... er... 1000000. No idea what they are though. Never mind, MAKE ME STEEL ARMOUR.
Sorry sir, can't do that, all we can find is a million bars of potash! Yeah.

[Himmelblau]

I couldn't stand not being able to forbid/unforbid, melt and zoom into objects from stock menu. I usually have a bookkeeper in the starting seven, but he multiclasses in various jobs until I get enough migrants and make him work full-time.

[Rose]

MY CDO DEMANDS ORDER AND EXACTNESS!

[caddybear]

Appointing a bookkeeper and making him a small office is the first thing I do. Call me crazy, but I like knowing exactly how much in trouble we actually are.

[MrWiggles]

Same here. Book Keeper get set at the highest precision as soon as the game starts.

There no real penalty for doing it, and as stated in the previous post it makes the stock screen more powerful. 

[Loud Whispers]

Stock screen manipulation, allows me to set all the stones for dumping, captured goblinite for processing and if the buggers offend me, forbid all the booze.

[Broseph Stalin]

If you've ever built a good sized project or make all your stone stuff out of marble you know how annoying it can be to scroll through building materials hundreds of times or end up with maybe one in ten tables made out of marble. Mass forbidding, mass dumping, material selection, when you're dealing with huge numbers you need percision.