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Subject: Re: SQL user function to turn a decimal number to a fraction
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:25:01 -0600
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Are you already doing this in RPG and want to move to SQL? or is this new stuff?

I believe the first step is to decide granularity; is there a desire to get finer than n/32's?
In that case you could adjust/round the decimal to a multiple of .03125
(For instance, where your decimal is .nnnnn: .nnnnnn /.03125 = x, an integer.) Your fraction will be x/32.
Lowering the answer to its lowest common denominator is a loop of:
While remainder of x/2 = 0, divide top & bottom by 2.

On 12/21/2016 11:00 AM, Gerald Magnuson wrote:

I am looking for a sql function that would turn a decimal number to a
fraction.

I found the following, for ORACLE... and tried to make it work for DB2 for
i...
but I am not nearly capable for that...
https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:410098200346123548

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