Store the data in decimals, and display it the way the users want to see it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: storing fractions of inches in a data field
I have an application that goes back to the 1970s which measures stock
in inches and fractions. It was designed with 2 fields for every
measurement{ a field for whole inches and a field for sixteenths. 3,
8 would be 3 1/2 inches, 3 9 would be 3, 9/16ths inches. There is
some talk of modernizing that.
What would be another way of handling it? 3.5 and 3.5625 are probably
not going to fly as a solution since it is too hard to teach on the
production floor (I am told).
Any ideas? Alternatives that might work? :)
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