Aladin Akyurek wrote...
The intellectual honesty appears to be something pretty hard to
maintain on internet, but the write-up you quote [sic] is pretty
deppressing on this score.
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FWIW, here's one of the earliest postings on Google.
http://www.google.com/[email protected]
And here are some even earlier ones from comp.apps.spreadsheets.
http://www.google.com/[email protected]
The latter uses an array formula version of SUMPRODUCT, but it too
advantage of multiple argument semantics, which are again becommin
more common in responses.
Here's an old post that shows that SUMPRODUCT's array argumen
semantics have been known for a long time.
http://www.google.com/[email protected]
If it were up to me, I'd guess credit for the use of SUMPRODUC
specifically in conditional summing and counting formulas that don'
require array formula entry should go to Laurent Longre since he cam
up with so many other idioms that have become so common in thes
newsgroups.
Now a tangent. The web page in question is poorly designed. HREF link
appear in the same color as other highlighted text. HREF links shoul
always appear in a distinct color