In your reply, you quoted Bo's answer which seems to me to provide the answer to your question.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you get feet, inches, and tenths of inches? > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Programming < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 100 12#:166.7 NB. feet and inches > > 13 10.7 > > 100 12 16#:16*166.7 NB. feet and inces and sixteenth inches > > 13 10 11.2 > > > > > > Den 19:10 mandag den 18. september 2017 skrev Brian Schott < > > [email protected]>: > > > > > > My car is 166.7 inches long according to the specs. > > Car cover coverages are measured in feet and inches. > > > > To compute how many feet and inches long my car is I used the following > > calculations. > > > > 166.7%12 > > 13.8917 > > (-<.)166.7%12 > > 0.891667 > > 12x *(-<.)166.7%12 NB. the x is not required, imo > > 10.7 > > > > Which seems to suggest the car is 13 feet 10.7 inches long, right? > > > > Being a little annoyed at how difficult that calculation seems I decided > to > > try to also see how many 16ths of an inch is added, so I did the > following > > which seems to suggest between 11 and 12 sixteenths. > > > > 16x * (-<.) 12x *(-<.)166.7%12 NB. again, x is extra > > 11.2 > > > > I wonder if there is an easier way to do this, which in my recollection > > seems to be in the wheelhouse of Ian's Tabula or its brethren. I had > > expected #: to be involved in the calculations, but could not find such. > > > > > > -- > > (B=) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- (B=) <-----my sig Brian Schott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
