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How to use the UNIQUE() function to return a count of unique values in Excel

How to use the UNIQUE() function to return a count of unique values in Excel Your email has been sent The TechRepublic article How to create a sorted unique list in an Excel spreadsheet shows you how ...
Visual Studio Magazine

How To Write a Function That Returns More Than One Value

Like magic, tuples make the impossible possible. Yep, we're talking here about one little corner in the Standard Template Library that will make it simple to return multiple values from a single ...
Ars Technica

Why do most programming languages only return a single value from a function?

This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites. Is ...
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How to return a column of n consecutive values in Microsoft Excel

How to return a column of n consecutive values in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent The fill handle in Microsoft Excel accommodates most serial list requirements, and it’s one of the first ...
Ars Technica

Why do most programming languages only return a single value from a function?

This very issue is one of my pet peeves of working in Java/C, because extract-function refactoring is severely inhibited by having only 1 return value, and it forces you to pass in mutable values ...