Hello Quentin & PIC.ers, I'm just down the road from you, these days. But I started out in a very `imperial unit' type country. ..an earlier life... yadayada IMO go with the ' for feet the '' for inches xxxxx.yy a la decimal for chunks of the inch. digressing..... oooeeewwww urghh great ascii-graphic-challenged groans --- >an engineer would usually place a dash between the feet and inches, >something like:5'-10.5" on the rare occasions that he chose to use >inches. Most of us think in decimal feet, so that 5'-10.5" would >generally be written as 5.875' > >All the best, > >Jim Jim, are you in the aviation business by any chance? bestos, John " degrees:minutes:seconds/feet/yards/pounds/furlongs" Sanderson e-mail from the desk of John Sanderson, JS Controls. Snailmail: PO Box 1887, Boksburg 1460, Rep. of South Africa. Tel/fax: Johannesburg 893 4154 Cellphone no: 082 741 6275 email: jsand@pixie.co.za Manufacturer & purveyor of laboratory force testing apparatus, and related products and services. >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:10:27 +0200 >From: Quentin >Subject: [PIC]: Help the metric man > >I need to measure and count in feet and inches and display it on a LCD. > >I always worked in metric before where I normally use a register each >for fractions, ones, tens, hundreds, etc. >This is easy to display and manipulate. >Now I have to do the same for feet and inches. I know there is 12 inches >in a foot, so that one is not a problem. But what is the general way of >displaying fractions of an inch?. Do you just use decimal? I.E.: 1/2 >inch do you show it as 0.5 inch? -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu