Miles and Yards to Miles and Chains, but......... not allowed to use macros

Fireman_Simon

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Hi all, I am attempting to convert a cell that contains miles and yards into miles and chains (railway).

Examples of cell data I have:
113.121 = 113m 121yds.
114.0198 = 114m 198yds
116.0066 = 116m 66yds

As you can see, they are messy and the digits after the decimal point isn't a mantissa in the normal sense.

So, to get the first example converted I would ignore the characteristic every time. I just need to treat the mantissa as whole numbers ie; ignore 113m. Then work on the mantissa of 121. => 121yds/22 = 5.5 chains
All I need is the answer in chains to be rounded to the nearest whole number, so I can use the ROUND function after I get the answer: 6 chains
Finally, I reinclude the characteristic and would have 113.6 ie 113m 6chains

I'm an excel smoothbrain folks. I would love it if you are able to help me. No macros allowed I'm afraid.

Thanking you in advance, Simon.
 
In that case how long is 111.12?
12yds, 120yds or 1200yds & how would you tell?
 
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