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D'all,
what is the meaning of "--" in a formula.

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Hi,

The double minus -- or more correctly the double unary coerces logical
values to numeric values of 1 (true) or 0 (False)


formula like SUMPRODUCT can then add these up to obtain the result.

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what is the meaning of "--" in a formula.

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See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

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