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CALC FUNCTIONS

FUNCTIONS

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of dispersion / spread

Probability and statistics

Correlation and line fitting

See also (in the Array Function category); GROWTH, LINEST, LOGEST, TREND

Ranking

Counts the non-empty values in the list of arguments.

COUNTA(value1; value2; ... value30)

value1 to value30 are up to 30 values or ranges representing the values to be counted.

COUNTA(B1:B3)

where cells B1, B2, B3 contain 1.1, =NA(), apple returns 3, because none of the cells in B1:B3 are empty.

COUNTA(2; 4; "dog")

returns 3, because 2, 4 and "dog" are all numbers or text.

COUNTA(D1)

where cell D1 contains ="", returns 1, because "" is a string (although of zero length).

See Also

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 : where cell <tt>'''D1'''</tt> contains <tt>'''=""'''</tt>, returns <tt>'''1'''</tt>, because <tt>'''""'''</tt> is a string (although of zero length).
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 * [[Documentation/How_Tos/Calc: COUNT function|COUNT]]
 * [[Documentation/How_Tos/Calc: COUNTIF function|COUNTIF]]