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Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each machine as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task into an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl


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=this_machine/original_system_score

and format that resultant cell as percentage.

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Bob Phillips

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"Karl" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each machine

as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task into

an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl




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With the benchmark in A1 and your score in B1, enter this formula in C1:

=B1/A1

and format as percentage

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Niek Otten

"Karl" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each machine
as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task into
an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl




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Thanks bob, but what does "this_machine" stand for?

What should I put in that part of the formula?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=this_machine/original_system_score

and format that resultant cell as percentage.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Karl" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each machine

as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task into

an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl





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Thanks!

"Niek Otten" wrote:

With the benchmark in A1 and your score in B1, enter this formula in C1:

=B1/A1

and format as percentage

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Karl" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each machine
as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task into
an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl







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The timing of the machine whose rating you want a percentage of the
original. You would normally put that value in a cell, and use the cell
reference.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Karl" wrote in message
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Thanks bob, but what does "this_machine" stand for?

What should I put in that part of the formula?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=this_machine/original_system_score

and format that resultant cell as percentage.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)

"Karl" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm testing a lot of PCs and I need to work out the score of each

machine
as
a percentage of the benchmark system's score.

I want to enter the number of seconds it took a PC to perform a task

into
an
excel cell, I then want excel to tell me what percentage of the

original
system's score this time represents.

Can anyone tell me what formula I need to use?

Any help much appreciated.

Karl







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