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.
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.