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  • MS Excel Is Stupid (or I am)

    I'm looking through all the functions the program has. (I'm using excel 2003), and I can't find a simple f.cking program that divides. Am I totally missing something here or does excel honestly not have any proper dividing function?

    I can't imagine they'd be stupid enough to put functions that do the inverse hyperbolic cosine, but can't do a simple division problem. But then again, it is Microsoft.

    If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
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      • #4
        It's an operator, not a function.

        =4/5

        =4./5.

        =B3/2

        =B3/D9
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          St. Leo beat me to it.
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            BTW, addition is also an operator in case the sum() function was throwing you off.

            =A9 + C15

            Ditto for subtraction:

            =G8 - A4

            And multiplication:

            =H5 * C9

            There's also exponentiation:

            =2 ^ A3
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            • #7
              Ah, nice. Thanks guys.
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              • #8
                OzzyKP is F*cking Stupid
                “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                • #9
                  Be fair to OzzyKP... Excel is a fantastic program in that it's so powerful... you can know 10% of its features and you can consider yourself an expert.

                  If you're used to =(SUM) and =(AVERAGE) it's probably quite easy to forget +-*/.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by OzzyKP
                    Ah, nice. Thanks guys.
                    You have to stop appearing on Fox, man. It's starting to affect you.
                    What?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by OzzyKP
                      Ah, nice. Thanks guys.
                      Answered your own question, I see.
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                      • #12
                        *sigh*.......


                        Thanks Whaleboy.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Whaleboy
                          Be fair to OzzyKP... Excel is a fantastic program in that it's so powerful... you can know 10% of its features and you can consider yourself an expert.

                          If you're used to =(SUM) and =(AVERAGE) it's probably quite easy to forget +-*/.
                          Yeah, right Whaleboy, sure it is.

                          I vote for the Ozzy is F*cking Stupid option
                          (and even that doesn't really do it justice)
                          Last edited by reds4ever; June 29, 2005, 18:58.

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                            It kinda puts some of Ozzy's opinions into a new perspective
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                            • #15
                              ^speaks truth
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