>>The formula in excel is STDEVPA(). Foxpro is assuming the data supplied is the universe, as opposed to the standard function in Excel which assumes that the data is just a sample. I think this is because, unlike fox, excel can only perform stdev on 30 values.
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>>Mace
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>Not quite. In Excel, formulae like stdev(), sum() or product() work on up to 30 ranges, but each range can have thousands of numbers.
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>For instances, try stdev(a1:a1000).
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>Hilmar.

You're right again, I was entering the numbers as arguements.