Formulas and Functions
Table Of Contents
- Formulas and Functions
- Contents
- Preface: Welcome to iWork Formulas & Functions
- Chapter 1: Using Formulas in Tables
- The Elements of Formulas
- Performing Instant Calculations in Numbers
- Using Predefined Quick Formulas
- Creating Your Own Formulas
- Removing Formulas
- Referring to Cells in Formulas
- Using Operators in Formulas
- The String Operator and the Wildcards
- Copying or Moving Formulas and Their Computed Values
- Viewing All Formulas in a Spreadsheet
- Finding and Replacing Formula Elements
- Chapter 2: Overview of the iWork Functions
- Chapter 3: Date and Time Functions
- Chapter 4: Duration Functions
- Chapter 5: Engineering Functions
- Chapter 6: Financial Functions
- Chapter 7: Logical and Information Functions
- Chapter 8: Numeric Functions
- Chapter 9: Reference Functions
- Chapter 10: Statistical Functions
- Listing of Statistical Functions
- AVEDEV
- AVERAGE
- AVERAGEA
- AVERAGEIF
- AVERAGEIFS
- BETADIST
- BETAINV
- BINOMDIST
- CHIDIST
- CHIINV
- CHITEST
- CONFIDENCE
- CORREL
- COUNT
- COUNTA
- COUNTBLANK
- COUNTIF
- COUNTIFS
- COVAR
- CRITBINOM
- DEVSQ
- EXPONDIST
- FDIST
- FINV
- FORECAST
- FREQUENCY
- GAMMADIST
- GAMMAINV
- GAMMALN
- GEOMEAN
- HARMEAN
- INTERCEPT
- LARGE
- LINEST
- Additional Statistics
- LOGINV
- LOGNORMDIST
- MAX
- MAXA
- MEDIAN
- MIN
- MINA
- MODE
- NEGBINOMDIST
- NORMDIST
- NORMINV
- NORMSDIST
- NORMSINV
- PERCENTILE
- PERCENTRANK
- PERMUT
- POISSON
- PROB
- QUARTILE
- RANK
- SLOPE
- SMALL
- STANDARDIZE
- STDEV
- STDEVA
- STDEVP
- STDEVPA
- TDIST
- TINV
- TTEST
- VAR
- VARA
- VARP
- VARPA
- ZTEST
- Chapter 11: Text Functions
- Chapter 12: Trigonometric Functions
- Chapter 13: Additional Examples and Topics
- Index
Usage Notes
This function returns a number value and can properly be used in a formula Â
containing other number values. Some other spreadsheet applications return
a string value.
Examples
=BASETONUM(”3f”, 16) returns 63.
=BASETONUM(1000100, 2) returns 68.
=BASETONUM(”7279”, 8) returns an error, since the digit “9” is not valid in base 8.
Related Topics
For related functions and additional information, see:
“BIN2DEC” on page 76
“HEX2DEC” on page 90
“NUMTOBASE” on page 92
“OCT2DEC” on page 94
“Listing of Engineering Functions” on page 72
“Value Types” on page 36
“The Elements of Formulas” on page 15
“Using the Keyboard and Mouse to Create and Edit Formulas” on page 26
“Pasting from Examples in Help” on page 41
BESSELJ
The BESSELJ function returns the integer Bessel function J
n
(x).
BESSELJ(any-x-value, n-value)
 any-x-value: The x value at which you want to evaluate the function. any-x-value is
a number value.
 n-value: The order of the function. n-value is a number value and must be greater
than or equal to 0. If n-value has a decimal portion, it is ignored.
Examples
=BESSELJ(25, 3) returns 0.108343081061509.
=BESSELJ(25, 3.9) also returns 0.108343081061509, since any decimal portion of n-value is ignored.
=BESSELJ(-25, 3) returns -0.108343081061509.
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