It's the largest number that can be held in a cell.

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"Richard Buttrey" wrote in
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Thanks Tom,

That's an interesting one.

Just as a supplementary, what's the significance of the
9.99999999999999E+307

particularly the +307 bit?

Regards


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:54:07 -0500, "Tom Ogilvy"
wrote:

From a post by Aladin Akyurek:

To fetch the last numerical value...

=LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,C:C)

To determine the position of the last numerical value within column C...

=MATCH(9.99999999999999E+307,C:C)

To fetch the last text value...

=LOOKUP(REPT("z",255),C:C)

To determine the position of the last text value within column C...

=MATCH(REPT("z",255),C:C)

so in E1

=LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,A1:D1)

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