An interesting problem

McGlinchy, Alistair Alistair.McGlinchy at marks-and-spencer.com
Wed Jan 3 14:41:14 GMT 2007


Paul Orrock wrote:

Just a question of clarification

> What I  need to find is which range yields the highest positive
result. 

When you say positive, do you just mean the highest result, or are all
negative values ignored?

>     A  B  C  D
> W  2 -3 -1  3
> X -1  5  3 -2
> Y -7  2 -1 -1
> Z  1  4  2  0
> 
> The area I want starts at column BX and runs down and right 
> to column CZ 
> with a total of 16.

Should this be 16 or 15?

Cheers

Alistair

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