Numbers syntax problem

I use this equation in Ms Excel. Numbers does not seem to like it. I'm trying to identify a column and a random row between two mumbers. Here is the EXCEL equation: INDIRECT("q"&INT(RANDBETWEEN(50,52))). In EXCEL, it will go to column "q" and select a random row between rows 50 and 52.

1st thing to look for is to ensure that you have the proper number of rows. I just did it on my ipad and it worked fine. if you dont have the number of rows, or it references outside the range the table is set up for, you might get an error.
Odd how the int is required though considering that Randbetween returns on integer between the two values.
Thinking about how I would have accomplished it, I think the offset command is a little more elegant than concatenation in indirect.
Yours
INDIRECT("q"&INT(RANDBETWEEN(50,52)))
Alternate
offset(Q50,randbetween(0,2),0,1,1)
This gives you the ability to change the column, as well as the number of rows or columns to include in the range. (maybe you have a variable range to sum or count, could be any number of rows or columns)
Jason

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Hi, I'm having problem with the first constructor in this simplified example code... I want to create a "default" Comparator. I'm not quite sure how to do this.
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    public MyClass() {
        MyClass(new ComparableComparatorBridge());
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        this.comp = comp;
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        public int compare(E o1, E o2) {
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}

Event if you fix the syntax problems, following the advice of the other posters, you'll have a semantic problem:
MyClass<E> is parameterized with an unbounded type parameter.
You cannot assume that E implements Comparable<E>.
What you'd really need is a parameterizd constructor like this (won't compile):public <C extends E & Comparable<E>> MyClass() {
this(new ComparableComparatorBridge<C>());
}Unfortunately, this isn't valid Java. I see two possibilities:
1. Derive from MyClass and introduce the additional bound on the type parameter of the subclass. Then you can create a default-constructor using the ComparableComparatorBridge in that subclass.
2. Add a static factory function to MyClass, like this:
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Dreamweaver silently detects syntax problem

I have a .cfm file which I've been maintaining for a few years. Recently while editing the file in DW6, DW began to fail to recognize that the file is a Cold Fusion file. Common keyboard shortcuts, both general and CF-specific just won't function. Menu items under "Insert...ColdFusion Objects" are all disabled.
After 90 minutes of progressively removing a few lines of code, saving and closing, then reopening the file, I tracked the problem down to the presence of 1 line of ColdFusion code.
I happened to see at the bottom of the edit window (in the part of the status bar which shows CF code nesting) that <cfinvoke> was listed, where there was none in the file I was having trouble with. It turns out the line of "bad" code was a <cfinclude>, and the file it referenced had a <cfinvoke> without a closing </cfinvoke>
The reason for this long post under Dreamweaver, is that DW was clearly detecting a syntax problem, but instead of identifying the problem, it just stopped functioning normally, and acted in a truely weird way.
I do NOT have "Enable Related Files" active. For DW to wanter out into other files and gag on a syntax error, then not to report the problem, was totally unexpected.
I consider the primary "bug" to be in failing to report the syntax error. Secondarily, syntax checking in related files should probably be controlled by the "related files" preference option.
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Did you report this to Adobe?
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Syntax problem After the Upgrade to SCM 7.0

We are facing one problem during the upgrade process in the sandbox environment.
After the upgrade we have completed the SPAU corrections ,while doing the SPAU corrections we found that one function module is not in active mode. We have checked the syntax,problem is there. we have tried to retrieve to the older version. But there are some notes were implemented during the 4.1 version. Those notes are now appearing in the SPAU with question mark.
We have reverted all the notes but still the code is having syntax problem and the code is in the 4.1 version only.
Please tell me how to solve it...
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A Random Numbers Syntax?

Does anyone know a random numbers syntax to pick numbers from 2-14?

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small problem in BDC Perform syntax but I am not getting how to do this..
I have writen the code like this in my BDC byt its throughing the error...Here I want to do the validation on each and every field. I mean If that field values are empty i don't want to change the SAP field value.
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1. this kind of syntax ie. IF will give error.
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Numbers sorting problem

I know that this problem may have been asked before but I searched and could not find a similar situation.
I have a spreadsheet that will not sort the contents of a cell correctly. As an example, the table has two columns, the first is formatted as a date, the second as text data. I enter dates in random order and just put a, b, c, d etc in order in the second column. Selecting one cell in the second column, I add background color and a black line border.
When I sort using the date column, the color background moves with the letter but the black border stays at the original cell address.
Is this a bug, or have I missed a setting somewhere?

Yes, it does do that. Without documentation saying what it is supposed to do, it isn't proper to call it a bug. Maybe that was an intended result. Seems kind of strange to move the fill color but not the borders but I can think of examples where you might want it that way, or the opposite way, or for both to move or neither to move.
Edit: I note that Excel 2008 does the same thing. Therefore it makes it very difficult to call it a bug. I do not know if Excel has any settings to change that behavior. To my knowledge, Numbers does not.
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Numbers formula problem

I have the following numbers, 20 in total. Numbers are from 0-9.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
3 7 8 1 2 6 6 7 3 1   0   7   0   1   2    2   1   6   8   2
i have another row where I want to put all the numbers that exist in the row 2. numbers that do not appear in that row should not appear in my other row.
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This is the sample data table (I reduced the number of columns for demonstration purposes):
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
DATA 1
16
15
17
16
19
17
16
16
16
18
15
14
14
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
DATA 2
11
9
12
10
12
14
13
11
12
14
15
13
14
15
18
Then you can create a "Helper Table" that looks like this (in practice it will have many more rows):
Value
Distinct
Ranked
DATA 1
DATA 1
9
16
16
10
15
15
11
17
17
12
16
13
19
19
14
17
15
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The formula in B2, copied down, is:
   =IFERROR(IF(COUNTIF(A$1:A2,A2)=1,A2,""),"")
The formula in C2, copied down, is:
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Your summary table would look something like this:
Durchmesser
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
The formula in B2, copied right until you get a blank, is:
   =IFERROR(INDEX(Helper Table::$C,COLUMN()),"")
SG

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Hi guys,
I have a problem with numbers' filtering function here.
1. I have a table of about 150 rows and 6 columns.
2. The data consists about 42 categories and I wish to sort out each item.
3. when I chose the column and try to filter the table, I found there list only about 22 items on the pop-up list.
where are those missing items ?
Could someone help me with this?
Mike

2. The data consists about 42 categories and I wish to sort out each item.
3. when I chose the column and try to filter the table, I found there list only about 22 items on the pop-up list.
Though the pop-up (or drop-down or whatever it's called) list maxes out at only 22 or so items, you can work with larger numbers in the Sort & Filter panel at the right.
SG

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I have Numbers 08, OX, the search works some of the time but will suddenly quit. The other day I was searching books by a certain author, to compare to a list of her books, trying to figure out which ones I had not read. (yes, I keep a log of the books I have read). For instance, I had searched & found a book, then searched for another, no find. Yet, when I looked at the one before, I see the one I searched for a few lines below. I tried other searches that should have landed on books but nothing happened. I quit Numbers & then checked it again, nada. It is working today...did it just need a reboot of Mac? I really can't imagine software that requires that. Oh yes, there were about 30 books that I searched.
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HT1338 OS X Numbers Update Problem...

OS X Version 10.9.1 on 27" late 2009 iMac.
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Hello experts,
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Any good ideas of solutions. <text removed>. Thanks for your time.
Edited by: Matt on Sep 14, 2010 9:17 AM

Hi Lubos,
phew! that sounds far from SAP scope, but from Maths' numerical methods. Let's see if I can remember something about my lessons at University...
- One issue can arise when adding and subtracting terms which are very similar, because the error tends to arise quite fast. Try to add the positive terms on one hand, and the negative terms on the other hand, then subtract one from the other.
- Please take into account that the determinant value can be significantly close to zero when the condition number of the matrix is low, that is, when the range is 4 but the whole determinant is close to 0. Instead, try a [Singular Value Decomposition|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVD_(mathematics)] or an [LU decomposition|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU_decomposition]
I hope this helps. Kind regards,
Alvaro

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rrandrr
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Thanks to previous replys but they don't seem to be solving my problem. probably because Im not describing my problem correctly.
I dont want to remove the data in the cells mentioned..
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