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An as yet unanswered Q from Stack Overflow [SO] enquired: how to stop looping this formula where the formulae were: in B9 =16,50 in B10 =B9-B11 in B11 =B10/2 without changing ...
#2: Post edited
by
Alexei
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2020-11-01T06:57:56Z (about 4 years ago)
added relevant tag
#1: Initial revision
by
pnuts
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2020-10-17T16:32:57Z (about 4 years ago)
Iterative references in LibreOffice Calc
An as yet unanswered [Q](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62142652/libre-ofice-calc-problem-with-looping-formula) from Stack Overflow [SO] enquired:
>how to stop looping this formula
where the formulae were:
in B9 =16,50
in B10 =B9-B11
in B11 =B10/2
>without changing text in cell.
(The above after changing `*` to `/` based on a comment. It can also be deduced from that comment that `16,5` is a value ("sixteen and a half") and that the formulae should return `11` in B10 and `5,5` or `5.5` in B11.)
The effect is to split the B9 value into 2/3rds (B10) and1/3rd (B11) but this was an academic exercise with the artificial constraint that:
> My lecturer want to 3 option... He didn't let me to change formulas in cell, he want explanation error and "magic solve".
So, how to achieve the desired split without changing the formulae?