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.

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 ...

Children begin to understand number place value by age 3—much earlier than previously believed, according to a new study in Child Development— and they may be ready for more substantive math lessons ...

If you define a numeric variable and assign the result of a character expression to it, SAS tries to convert the character result of the expression to a numeric value and to execute the statement. If ...

Howdy Folks,<BR><BR>I have an Access database that contains water chemistry analyses. Some of the results are large numbers (10,000+) and some are smaller (0.034). <BR><BR>When running a query or a ...

Within SAS, a missing value for a numeric variable is smaller than all numbers; if you sort your data set by a numeric variable, observations with missing values for that variable appear first in the ...