At 18:33 10/11/2008 +0000, Graham Smith wrote:
>     {=SUM(C2:G2*(C2:G2-1))/(SUM(C2:G2)*(SUM(C2:G2)-1))}

Interestingly, this gives the wrong answer in Calc (release 3.0)
my  5 numbers are 2, 8, 1,1, 3
which is 64/210

OOo gives me an answer of  0.02857 using the formula above.
[...]
and simply dividing 64/210 also gives me 0.304762 ...

I've just copied the formula above from your message and pasted it into a spreadsheet (stripping the braces and then using Ctrl+Shift+Enter) and applied it to your values. It does work: at least, it gives me 0.304762 - as you hope (version 3.0 for Windows XP). I cannot know what you are doing wrong.

Brian Barker


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