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Default Find data in table with to set of constant values

Hi all!

Please help me with following problem

If I have as an example following table:
100 200 300 400
0,01 4 6 11 17
0,5 3 5 10 15
1 2 4 9 13

and I use following constant values:
0,393 to be looked up in A row as nearest value (0,5 in A3 cell)
199 to be looked up 1 coloumn as nearest value (200 in C3 cell)
to look up for values in table area B2:E4 and get value 5 return.

If I use this function:
=INDEX(A1:E4;MATCH(G1;A1:A4;0);MATCH(G2;A1:E1;0))
it would not look up for the nearest value, regardless of rounding up the
constants.

I have also tried following:
=INDEX(A1:E4;LOOKUP(G1;A1:A4);LOOKUP(G2;A1:E1))
but look up function only rounds down, and used constant value 0,393 become
0.01 instead of 0,5.

Question:
How do I get Excel to look up for the mathematicaly nearest constants in a
table, and than pick a data from it?


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