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Ummm, questions, questions...
How many decimal places do you need to support?
Need to support negative numbers?
What does a repeating number come out as, for example .333?
On solution in the Oracle thread was to create a table that contained
the decimal plus the corresponding numerator and denominator. So
supporting 3 decimals you would have 999 entries. Example entries might be
.250,1,4, or
.750,3,4 or
.375,3,8
This seems to be to be reasonably efficient, but maybe not workable if
you have to support many different decimal places.
Interesting math and analysis in the Oracle thread. Probably could be
done in RPG.
Sam
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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