No Way To Crop To 2.35:1

Suppose you wanted to crop a photo in Aperture to an exact aspect ratio, such as 2.35:1, there's no way to do it, is there? The crop tool only allows 2 digits per width and height. So, you can't type in 2.35 to 1 or even 235 to 100. Isn't that a bit of a limitation?
Also, because of this 2 digit limitation, you can't crop to match the proportions of exact resolutions, such as 1680x1050 or 848x480.

Golly,
in a way I feel so relieved taht other people are subject to the same limitations…
I've been using 23.5 x 10 for ages, and considfering the comma has to be put in, and you loose your setting everytime you need to crop to another format… it's been inconvenient..
maybe for the next revision, we'll be able to put in our presets.
And if possible, to delete some aspect ratios that make no sense to us
and lastly, to put them in the order we want them
maybe
in the meantime, typing 23,5 x 10 works.
sigh

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