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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