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2008 Apr 14
9
scientific notation problem
.... For large numbers,
i.e. numbers greater than 100 million, MySQL insists on storing these
as scientific notation. I don''t really have a problem with that but
when we want to edit these fields using something like:
<% form_for(@company) do |f| %>
<p>
<%= f.text_field :some_large_number_field , :size => 20 %>
<%= f.submit "Update" %>
</p>
<% end %>
the field is presented to the user with the number in scientific
notation form, not what we want unfortunatly, since the users won''t
understand this. We''ve looked at a bunch of docum...