Re: [HACKERS] ordinal decimal number

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> "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?

 I implement it to to_char (ordinal with decimal places), but is user choise 
if use or not use it...

							Karel