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[Closed] Best Excel formula I've thus far encountered

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=IF(G9*(I9*J9),(I9*J9),(I9*J9)*0)

I felt I had to share.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 3:43 pm
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Posted : 21/08/2018 3:48 pm
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Posted : 21/08/2018 3:57 pm
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Might not be rich if you are starting with 0...


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 3:59 pm
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you mopping-up other people's poo again Rob?


 
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Posted : 21/08/2018 4:22 pm
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you mopping-up other people’s poo again Rob?

Stupid is as stupid does 🙂

Plenty of the original figures are zero - the fail is quite strong round here.

I think a training session may be in order...


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 5:29 pm
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P.S.

The column header for this wonder is: Efficiency

Laugh? I nearly did!


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 5:33 pm
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surely the first * should actually be an =

???


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 5:36 pm
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#VALUE!

think i broke something

ps. anything multiplied by zero is zero


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 5:50 pm
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surely the first * should actually be an =

Returns 0 for all of these figures 😀 😀

It actually gives the right answer as is, but is done in what I would call the worng way.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 5:51 pm
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ps. anything multiplied by zero is zero

∞*0 != 0


 
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Put an iferror at the start and its better.

=iferror(IF(G9*(I9*J9),(I9*J9),(I9*J9)*0),"Review") or if you do not want to review.

=iferror(IF(G9*(I9*J9),(I9*J9),(I9*J9)*0),"")


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 6:47 pm
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It makes no sense.

Youre saying: “if G9 x I9 x J9 then I9 * J9 else I9 x J9 x 0

Which is obviously total gibberish.

So did you write this formula, or encounter it somewhere? This thread has failed to deliver on so many levels.


 
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i understood zero factorial was generally held to be 1?


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 7:04 pm
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This thread has failed to deliver on so many levels

You came to this thread with expectations of anything else?


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 7:06 pm
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Well it’s a very simple, shit formula which makes no sense.

I had higher expectations.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 7:09 pm
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total crap.

Ban please


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 7:34 pm
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You humourless ****ers!

It makes no sense.

This was rather the point, my dear NG. If you can figure that out you can probly figure out if I wrote it or not*

*A clue: I didn't.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 8:03 pm
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I'm not clever enough for this

when you say it actually does what it's supposed to do, what is it supposed to do ?

since there's no =, <, >, is it just assuming that G*I*J has to not be zero in order to progress to the "correct" side of the IF


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 9:00 pm
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<tests for self>

<agrees with self>

<proud of self>


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 9:01 pm
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I thought the formula might be (okay, hoping) something rude.  Like entering 55378008 on a calculator and turning it upside down.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 9:06 pm
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when you say it actually does what it’s supposed to do, what is it supposed to do ?

=I9*J9 does the job.

No IF() is required as it always resolves to true. WTF was going through the mind of the guy who wrote it, I cannot fathom.

He's also in the habit of doing this kind of thing:

=+A1+A2

I'll be having words.


 
Posted : 21/08/2018 9:59 pm
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seems to me that it returns I9xJ9 only if G9 is NOT zero

If G9 is zero it returns zero - maybe for a good reason

presumably G9 can't just be 1 or 0, or they'd just make it =GxIxJ


 
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Posted : 21/08/2018 10:43 pm
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Reported. For claiming he got the best excel than the excel that I got.


 
Posted : 23/08/2018 12:33 am
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Does no-one report spammers any more?  C'mon guys, help us out here.


 
Posted : 23/08/2018 1:17 am
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I did. What do I win?


 
Posted : 23/08/2018 1:20 am