Thank you Bob, but I want to return the negative sign, so in the example I
gave the number returned must be -11. If -11 was not there then the largest
would be 10.

Milos.

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Miles,

Not non-array, but simpler

=MAX(ABS(A1:A100))

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"Milos Setek" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Is there a nice non-array formula (or a more efficient array formula) to
compute the largest value (positive or negative) in a range such as this
one:

-5, 2, 0, -2, 10, -11.

In this case the answer is -11.

I use this formula but I think there should be something better than
that.

{=IF(MAX(range)=MAX(ABS(range)),MAX(range),-MAX(range)))}

Thanks for any tips.

Milos.