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To: Ross McEathron who wrote (2871)	10/27/1997 10:35:00 AM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3325

You can't do that, unfortunately, because -- as Bill Riedeman pointed out -- the formula is recursive, and WOW doesn't do recursive formulas. It's recursive in that it has to return to the previous value of VIDYA over and over, not just once. So you'd have to have a formula for ref(VIDYA,-2), ref(VIDYA,-3), ref(VIDYA,-4), etc. Nietzsche apparently ran into the same problem and called it the eternal recurrence. The only way to see VIDYA in WOW is to do it in Excel and then import the data. That's quite complicated, too, because you have to find a place to put the VIDYA data in a CSV file. I put it in the column normally reserved for "open" prices. But that's a long story. I won't go into it -- already, the mere mention of VIDYA again on this thread has caused the market to crash. I have to be more careful.