It'll probably puke with 9 places, if the leftmost is larger than 4 as well. The 4.2 billion limit to the size a 4 byte integer can hold. When passed, don't declare it as a numeric type, then use a string function to strip off characters from the left of the decimal point and save them. then process the fractional part into a fraction, and then do some string manipulation to add back in the part you stripped of to begin with. An example might be better (pay attention to quotes to determine what is string and what is numeric):
recieve the string "1000000000.33" as arg save "1000000000" as _whole arg now equals ".33" add zero to get 0.33 compute that 0.33 = "33/100" as save as fract return _whole & " " & fract I think that's the only way you're going to get around the 4.2 bil problem. Might be easier to just say your function doesn't handle values that big, because if you're dealing with stuff that size, fractions usually don't matter a whole lot (what's another .01 when you've already got 4,000,000,000?). HTH, barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.671.8708 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: charlie griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CF error...Cannot convert 10000000000 to integer > > > Hey folks: > > working on a function to convert a decimal number to a fraction. > > everything's working fine, unless the number passed to the > function has MORE > than 9 decimal places. If 10 decimal places, i get: > > Error Occurred While Processing Request > Cannot convert 10000000000 to integer > > The function can be seen here: > http://charlie.griefer.com/decimal_to_fraction.cfm > > > Is this something wrong in the code? Or a ceiling on CF and integers? > > Also...just curious...if you were using this function, and passed > .33 to it, > would you rather get back 33/100 (accurate), or 1/3 (more generally > accepted)? > > tia, > charlie > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
