PICA
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use PICA to convert from fathoms, feet, furlongs, inches, meters, miles, nautical miles, pica, points, or yards to pica.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[PICA] (
<@Length, float,>
,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>)
Arguments
@Length
is any real number. @Length is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.
@From_scale
is the description of the units for @Length. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in length unit representations. @From_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
Return Types
float
Remarks
· The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the length units of measure into pica:
|
inches
|
6.0000000000000
|
|
feet
|
72.0000000000000
|
|
yards
|
216.0000000000000
|
|
meters
|
236.2204722000000
|
|
fathoms
|
432.0000000000000
|
|
furlongs
|
47520.0000000000000
|
|
miles
|
380160.0000000000000
|
|
nautical miles
|
437480.3148000000000
|
|
pica
|
1.0000000000000
|
|
points
|
0.0833333333333
|
· Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.PICA(100, 'yd')
Here is the result set
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21600
(1 row(s) affected)