"J. Roeleveld" wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I add to the to_char() routine "ordinal-number" feature, but my >> English is
insufficientfor this :-( (sorry) > >There are enough people that speak English, what we don't have enough >of on this
worldare people that know what they can and can't do :) > >> I good know how is it for non-decimal numbers, but if
numberhas >> 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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