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