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Subject: Iteration count in Excel 1.5
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Date: 12 Oct 89 19:38:04 GMT
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I'm trying to compute an iterated spreadsheet which sometimes has some
inherent instabilities.  If the spreadsheet ever computes a third
iteration, I know that the instabilities have occurred, so I could
write formulas that would "stabilize" them.  Unfortunately, there
doesn't seem to be any function which returns the iteration count in
Excel 1.5.  Am I missing something?  I seem to remember that Multiplan
at least had an ITERCNT() function.

As an aside, I have taken a close look at Excel 2.2, and there are
very few useful (to me, at least) features there that are not in Excel
1.5.  Being able to read/write ASCII files from within a macro would
be useful, but that's about it.  I have no plans to spend $100 for
this ability, however.

	--Mark