Lookup in Range?

Hiya folks.
Just wondering if I can use a LOOKUP for a value in a range. Example:
Lookup value: 2300
Range table:
Minimum
Maximum
Associate
1
999
alpha
1000
2499
bravo
2500
4999
charlie
5000
9999
delta
10000
19999
echo
20000
99999
foxtrot
How can I look up the value 2300 and return its associate?
Cheers

No, you're missing my references. My "desires" are what I stated. You've mixed up my references with my desires.
See, all of this is a one to many relationship. The assumption that it means "from this point on-positive" is just wrong. LOOKUP is a database relationship. The 4 functions are LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and MATCH.
So, when I searched for "range", 70 items came up. For a function of a search range, perhaps you think this is indicative of a range? Really? How from your presentation here does it mean that it's anything useful from any regular user of Numbers?
Your reply means that I spend how much time in what documention? Really? Have you ever considered the user of Numbers? I'm not sure of how much of a true software developer you are, but I will say this. This software is consumer level stuff. Consumer 100%. Any developer of a serious language will want an instant, repetitive, fully accessible Reference of all functionality, which explains what is where. Numbers...does not. It fails.
I would recommend spending some time in a real language where developers expect to know where definitions of functionality are presented. Numbers is a desktop application that is obviously half-tagged. The functionality of "range" lookup, should obviously have the tag "range" built into the function. Numbers, does not have it.
Your recommendation of "not searching on 'range'" is...not good. Not recommended. See, computers are our slaves. Making recommendations for searches...is backwards. And, your "guide" isn't my guide. Chapter 9 didn't help me. Ever. Fail. So, at this moment, multiple fails upon...Apple. And no, not everybody is asking you nor your own manuals.
Giving feedback is a bit past the point of having explanation upon its current software. Why would anybody provide feedback on software that apparently works, yet isn't documented? That's just an introduction to a (perhaps non-answered) debate on what is already there, yet unfounded, thanks to tech "writers" that forgot or chose not to enter that functionaltiy.
How many have provided feedback by choosing "Feedback..." and saying "make documentation, fools"?
Software isn't intuitive, as a developer. Nor is it by any user. This is just another example of where documentation doesn't come close to explaining how to get past a big wall. Hence the user stalls, and tech gets another bad name.

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