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Subject: RE: SQL user function to turn a decimal number to a fraction
From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:43:41 +0000
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Our manufacturing plant still uses fractions. We do calculations in decimal (of course) and then round to the nearest 16th.

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From: Booth Martin [mailto:booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 12:04 PM
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Subject: Re: SQL user function to turn a decimal number to a fraction

What you say is true. I don't dispute that. On the other hand, the OP is working to solve a business problem - who else but butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers use fractions? Providing a solution that will give "4/13ths" as an answer has no useful purpose so far as I can see.

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