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    Re: Issue with Rank Formula

    Upon download I found what appears to be a floating point issue in the data.

    Entering
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    =MATCH(E2:E26,E2:E26,0)
    in an unused area returns this array.
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    {1;1;1;1;1;6;1;8;1;1;11;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;24;1}
    Those numbers (8 and 11) correspond with the $1,875.00 figures. They should both be 8s.

    Shadowing column E with rounded values in column F (ROUND(E2,2)) and then changing the formula in column C to reference F produced expected results.

    What is strange is that restoring references in C back to column E now produced the expected returns, and
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    =MATCH(E2:E26,E2:E26,0)
    then returned the array
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    {1;1;1;1;1;6;1;8;1;1;8;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;1;24;1}
    . In other words the floating point seemed to disappear from column E and your formula worked fine!!

    Please try the MATCH function at your end to confirm the differences between the $1,875.00 figures. RANK and COUNTIF seem to be evaluating them differently.

    As for the evident "self correction" I have no explanations.
    Last edited by FlameRetired; 10-04-2018 at 09:33 PM.
    Dave

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