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Thanks, -- Raul 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
