I wrote...
>
> I have two columns - let's call them A and Z - and I want to calculate
> what would in any decent programming language be the sum
> of f(A[i], Z[i]) [where f is a given function]. Is there any way I can
> do this?
>
... and now I regret for the oversimplification.

The precise thing that I want makes it not viable to create
a new column, because _f_ will not remain a function, but
a _series_ of functions - and creating one new column for each
_f_ is not adequate.

Namely: there is a table with values A[i] and Z[i]. There is
another table with values F[j] [and here I use different indexes
on purpose]. I want to make column G[j] as...

G[j] = sum over i ( function of (F[j], A[i] and Z[i]))

So, the extra-column solution won't work.

I would like something like:

G[j] = SUM( etc etc F[j] etc etc A1:A1000 etc etc Z1:Z1000)

but somehow this construct does not work.

Alberto Monteiro

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