On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:35:21 +0200
Frederic Parrenin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the information, I did not know that.
> However, it seems there is a bug.
> If I enter your formula, place 1 in Sheet2!A1, the result is 1.
> Then if I move Sheet3 before Sheet1, the result is still 1.
> Forcing the recalc fixes it.

Yes, this is a bug.  I suspect that reordering worksheets doesn't lead
to any checks for changes to any formulas' dependency chains.

> > I've got no idea what a 4D formula would look like, or how you'd
> > arrange the data in a spreadsheet.  What were you thinking about for
> > this one?
> 
> Cells reference could be of the form X1Y3Z2T5.
> Of course you can view in a screen only 2D slices of this hyper-cube.
> You could select which pair of axes you want to view, e.g. (X,Y).
> Then you could move the other 2 variables (Z and T in this case) using
> 2 cursors.

This doesn't sound much like a spreadsheet any more.  What sort of data
are you modelling?  Using a database for this might be far simpler,
they can easily store multi-dimensional data.

- olly
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