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Default finding out denominations.!

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:01:17 -0700 (PDT), via135
wrote:

hi

i'm having values in multiples of 100 in COL A.
i want the quotients in COL B [divisor 500] & COL C [divisor 100]
explained as under:

COL "A" - COL "B" - COL "C"

100 - 0 1
200 - 0 2
500 - 0 5
600 - 1 1
700 - 1 2
1000 - 1 5
1200 - 2 2
1500 - 2 5
1600 - 3 1
1900 - 3 4
2000 - 3 5
2100 - 4 1
2500 - 4 5
50000 - 99 5
.
.
.
so on


any hlp pl..?


-via135



Try the following formulas for cell B1 and C1 respectivele:

=INT((A1-1)/500)

=CHOOSE(1+MOD(A1,500)/100,5,1,2,3,4)

Copy them down as far as needed

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke