Re: [HACKERS] ordinal decimal number

"J. Roeleveld" wrote:
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> I add to the to_char() routine "ordinal-number" feature, but my 
  >> English is insufficient for this :-(  (sorry)
  >
  >There are enough people that speak English, what we don't have enough
  >of on this world are people that know what they can and can't do :)
  >
  >> I good know how is it for non-decimal numbers, but if number has 
  >> decimal part?
  >> 
  >> Example: 2.6  --> 2.6th 
  >>             or  2.6  --> 2.6nd 
  >
  >It's:  2.6 --> 2.6th

It isn't really possible to have an ordinal with decimal places in
English; it sounds very awkward.

Ordinals designate placing in a list; a computer example would be an
array index.  How can such a number have decimal places?

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