YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> I don't recall specifics, but I do remember multiple times
> where I was working with a structure that consisted of
> a whole part and a fracture part where I found it useful
> to have the fracture part always positive and displayed
> as such.

One has already been shared in this thread: Logarithms, where the part
before the decimal is the scale and the part after the decimal is the
mantissa. Makes very good sense to negate the first without changing
the second.

ChrisA