Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse when it comes to calculating numbers. With its vast assortment of functions, you can construct formulas to derive virtually any numeric result. However, if these ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

contains only numbers, and sometimes a decimal point and/or minus sign. When they are read into a SAS data set, numeric values are stored in the floating-point format native to the operating ...

Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...

The issue of numeric precision affects the return values of almost all SAS System math functions and many numeric values returned from SAS System procedures. Numeric values in the SAS System for UNIX ...

Ivan Panin, a Greek, Hebrew and math scholar from Harvard, knew that Hebrew and Greek letters have numeric values. He studied the numeric value of words, phrases and sentences referring to certain ...

The so-called frantic 50s and swinging 60s are decades meaning time spans of 10 years, but when we use that term decades in engineering, we are referring to numerical values in 10-to-1 ratios. “Ten” ...