I was fiddling with ideas in conection with a post in the miscellaneous group (Huwbob's problem "Check instances of values in a column") using the attached sheet.
To generate a set of numbers to work with I used RANDBETWEEN(0,10), I was then using SUMPRODUCT to determine the number of times any of three numbers appeared in the randomly generated list.
Regardless of whether this is a sensible way of solving the problem, I encountered an unexpected effect.
I noticed that as I re-calculated the random numbers, the result was not changing.
I stepped through the calculation using the "Evaluate Function" feature, and the calculations are correct, until the final step!
Note that if I use copy and paste-special values to replace the random number formulas with the numeric values, the calculation is correct.
Any Ideas? (I am using Office 2007)
Mark.
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