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ConvertFractToNum ( number )

Colin Keefe, IT Solutions Consulting, Inc
http://itsolutions-inc.com

Converts a fraction to a real number.

Description:

I've been using Mikhail Edoshin's Fraction() custom function for awhile now - it's great. (see: http://edoshin.skeletonkey.com/)

For a particular application, I needed a method to convert user-entered fractions back into a real number, so I could perform math on it, so I wrote this up to complement Mikhail's function. Feed it a fraction, and it'll do its level best to produce a real number.

There's some room for improvement here in terms of error capture, but much of that could be handled at field-level validation, to prevent malformed fractions from being entered.

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