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Old November 13th, 2009, 09:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Sean Timmons
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Default How would I do this sum in Excel please?

Yeah, I've ass-u-me'd more than my share of times on here. :-)

"Joe User" wrote:

"Sean Timmons" wrote:
Presuming you want to do the additon, then the multiplication, then
exponent,
it would be
=(42450*(1.004167))^120


You forgot some parentheses, to wit:

=(((42450)*(1.004167))^(120))

:-) :-) :-)

Good point about the ambiguity of the English description. I decided not to
mention it myself because I thought the form of her description made her
application clear. But you know what they say about ass-u-me ;-).


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"Sean Timmons" wrote in message
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Presuming you want to do the additon, then the multiplication, then
exponent,
it would be

=(42450*(1.004167))^120

However, 1.79769313486231^308 is the largets number allowed in a cell, so
this would exceed the limit.

"Denise Green" wrote:

am new to excel (and maths to some extent!) so how do I put the following
calculation into the formula bar please.

42,450 x (1+0.004167) to the power of 120


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