[Jprogramming] converting inches to feet, inches (and 16ths of inches)

[Brian Schott]

My car is 166.7 inches long according to the specs.
Car cover coverages are measured in feet and inches.

To compute how many feet and inches long my car is I used the following
calculations.

   166.7%12
13.8917
   (-<.)166.7%12
0.891667
   12x *(-<.)166.7%12  NB. the x is not required, imo
10.7

Which seems to suggest the car is 13 feet 10.7 inches long, right?

Being a little annoyed at how difficult that calculation seems I decided to
try to also see how many 16ths of an inch is added, so I did the following
which seems to suggest between 11 and 12 sixteenths.

   16x * (-<.) 12x *(-<.)166.7%12  NB. again, x is extra
11.2

I wonder if there is an easier way to do this, which in my recollection
seems to be in the wheelhouse of Ian's Tabula or its brethren. I had
expected #: to be involved in the calculations, but could not find such.


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