Fractions
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy on a few projects with upcoming deadlines. Harder still, I am working on both a Ruby on Rails and a PHP project at the same time and switching mindsets is challenging. (I can’t count the number of times I type self when I mean $this and vice versa.) It is like traveling between two foreign countries several times a day. I speak French to the German baker and German to the French butcher. (Or, most often, I am speechless in both cases!)
For the PHP project, I need to work with fractions of an inch in a few places. Not as decimals, but as fractions (1/5, 5/12, 3/64, etc.). Fractions are not an uncommon problem for developers. Since there seem to be very few discussions online about the subject, I thought it would be worthwhile to review some of the options. My example code will be in PHP since that’s the “country” I’m in right now, but the Ruby code is easy to extrapolate.
