Re: Fractions

[Thomas Spahni]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, William Martell wrote:

> Can anyone tell me whether we can represent fractions in MySQL 4.0.  I have
> data representing different lengths of objects measured in inches.  Can I
> load this data as is into a field in MySQL or do I have to convert it first
> into an floating point interger or decimal value???

Did you consider storing a fraction using 2 integers? That's the way we
did it many years ago in Forth.

Thomas Spahni
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