PICA

Updated 2023-11-09 14:18:52.463000

Syntax

SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[PICA] (
  <@Length, float,>
 ,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>)

Description

Use the scalar function PICA to convert from fathoms, feet, furlongs, inches, meters, miles, nautical miles, pica, points or yards to pica.

Arguments

@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.

@Length

is any real number. @Length is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.

Return Type

float

Remarks

The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the length units of measure into pica:

{"columns":[{"field":"column 1"},{"field":"column 2","headerClass":"ag-right-aligned-header","cellClass":"ag-right-aligned-cell"}],"rows":[{"column 1":"inches","column 2":"6.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"feet","column 2":"72.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"yards","column 2":"216.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"meters","column 2":"236.2204722000000"},{"column 1":"fathoms","column 2":"432.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"furlongs","column 2":"47520.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"miles","column 2":"380160.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"nautical miles","column 2":"437480.3148000000000"},{"column 1":"pica","column 2":"1.0000000000000"},{"column 1":"points","column 2":"0.0833333333333"}]}

Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.

Examples

select wct.PICA(100, 'yd');

Here is the result set.

{"columns":[{"field":"column 1","headerClass":"ag-right-aligned-header","cellClass":"ag-right-aligned-cell"}],"rows":[{"column 1":"21600"}]}