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I'd store it under the covers in decimal notation so that you can perform numeric operations on it, but convert it for display in fractions.

Booth Martin wrote:
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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