You might also try this plugin for a more excel like expeiance. https://chronicles.wiki/TiddlyWikiFormula/
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 16:39:29 UTC Eric Shulman wrote: > On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 8:21:46 AM UTC-8 brad.d...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> ...how to do calculations and formulas in TW. At the moment I would like >> to do the following: >> =INT(({{!!myfield}}-10)/2) >> > > Calculations are done using the "filter" syntax. There are several ways > to do this. > > * direct rendering using "filtered transclusion" > {{{ [{!!myfield}subtract[10]divide[2]trunc[]] }}} > > * using the $set widget with "filter" parameter > <$set name="result" filter="[{!!myfield}subtract[10]divide[2]trunc[]]"> > > * using the $vars widget with filtered transclusion as a parameter > <$vars result={{{ [{!!myfield}subtract[10]divide[2]trunc[]] }}}> > > Notes: > * within the filter syntax, field references use *single* curly braces. > * there isn't any filter syntax for using parentheses in calculations, so > the order of operations is very important > * sometimes this means using several filters to calculate intermediate > results and then combining them. > > For example, to calculate something like this: > INT(({!!myfield} / 2) - ({!!myfield} - 5)) > > You could write: > <$vars part1={{{ [{!!myfield}divide[2]] }}} part2={{{ > [{!!myfield}subtract[5]] }}}> > <$vars result={{{ [<part1>subtract<part2>trunc[]] }}} > > enjoy, > -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0446db7f-7087-4550-841d-fbec938f937fn%40googlegroups.com.