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Doing some dBase programming in the early '90s, I wrote a generic
routine to convert decimal values to fractions and vice versa for some
stock program. Storing stock values has the same issues as storing
English measurements.

--Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: storing fractions of inches in a data field

Thats what I find funny! Their shop guys can, and do, work in both
English and Metric, but they can't work in decimal inches. I had even
discussed changing to tenths of inches but man, that was met with blank
stares. :)

smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tell the shop floor to get with modern times. Toss all those old
measurements and convert it all to metric! ;-)


Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express



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