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Oh, my....

I have been optimising formulas in Excel today.

I managed to get this one;

=round(sum(100-sum(sum((128-7)-match(A1,$A$7:$A$128,0))/121)*100),2)&" %"

down to...

=match(A1,$A$7:$A$128,0)/count(A7:A128)

The first formula was thrown together to get an end result and to allow for the rest of the spreadsheet to be built quickly. I then went back in and started fine tuning and reducing formulas down as far as I could; this spreadsheet is also used in Google Drive by some people on low speed wifi connections, so I wanted it to be as light as possible. The next iteration was this...

=round(100-sum((DAYS360($A$7,$A$128)-match($A$1,$A$7:$A$128,0))/DAYS360($A$7,$A$128))*100,2)&" %"

Ignoring the round() method at the start, this is essentially;

100-((a-x)/a)*100

I reduced it step by step...

100-(1-x/a)*100
100*(1-(1-(x/a)))
100*(1-1+(x/a)))
100*(x/a)

Then applied this logic to the formula, giving me...

100*match($A$1,$A$7:$A$128,0)/days360($A$7,$A$128)

Then I found out that the days360() method doesn't give an accurate size for applying % to a single day, so shifted to the count() method instead, ignoring the date formatting, and just counting rows.

Hope that helps.
 
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