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Default Min excluding zero values, without an array fomrula

Time travel is very reliable, but only in the forward direction!

Benadryl won yesterday and I got the formula wrong. Clearly:

If MIN() does not return zero then
use MIN()
else
use the SMALL() formula
endif

=IF(MIN(R2:AA2)<0,MIN(R2:AA2),SMALL(R2:AA2,COUNTI F(R2:AA2,0)+1))

This gets the correct min with any combination of positive and negatives and
specifically excludes zero.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu200854


"Héctor Miguel" wrote:

hi, Gary''s !

An interesting alternative is:
=SMALL(R2:AA2,COUNTIF(R2:AA2,0)+1)
But I don't know if this will pick up any speed performance...


(just *curious*)... do you have a "time travel machine" ?

- the first post from you that I "saw" (in my OE) was it the one ~20 minutes *after* Tony's post...
where you state that the SMALL function doesn't work when negative values are present

- and *suddenly* (in my OE) *appears* a second post (from you) but ~3 minutes *before* Tony's post...
and your proposal is (exactly) the same Tony's formula, the one that you *after* question for negative values (???)

as I said... (just *curious*) :D

regards,
hector.