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doing a monte carlo simulation and many times it will register an error
specifiaclly a num# error .. I then average and do other stuff to the
calculations, and it doesnt work with those num# I have tried =iferror(
but that doesnt work for num#

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You could try something like this, array-entered*:
=AVERAGE(IF(ISNUMBER(A2:A100),A2:A100))
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doing a monte carlo simulation and many times it will register an error
specifiaclly a num# error .. I then average and do other stuff to the
calculations, and it doesnt work with those num# I have tried =iferror(
but that doesnt work for num#

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Another way, non-array:

=SUMIF(C1:C13,"<"&99^99)/COUNTIF(C1:C13,"<"&99^99)
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You could try something like this, array-entered*:
=AVERAGE(IF(ISNUMBER(A2:A100),A2:A100))
*press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to confirm the formula

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--
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doing a monte carlo simulation and many times it will register an error
specifiaclly a num# error .. I then average and do other stuff to the
calculations, and it doesnt work with those num# I have tried =iferror(
but that doesnt work for num#



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=SUMIF(C1:C13,"<1E100")/COUNTIF(C1:C13,"<1E100")


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doing a monte carlo simulation and many times it will register an error
specifiaclly a num# error .. I then average and do other stuff to the
calculations, and it doesnt work with those num# I have tried =iferror(
but that doesnt work for num#

help

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