Re: [office-formula] MIN/MAX/MINA/MAXA and no value, zero?

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Thu, 2007-08-03 at 17:53 -0500, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Are you suggesting a general rule that passing zero arguments to a
> one-argument function is implementation defined?  Or only in the case
> of these four particular functions? 
> 
> I guess I'm trying to think of a good reason why we would not want an
> error in that case?   

On one hand I can't think of any reason why somebody would want to use
the min/max/mina/maxa functions without any arguments. On the other hand
there seem to be no real difference between passing a region that
contains no values at all and omitting the argument.

Andreas
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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta