Re: [HACKERS] ordinal decimal number

"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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