I have a question about the Google equivalent of Microsoft Excel.
The two products are not exactly equivalent, but the correct English phrase alludes me.
Either Google Sheets is a substitute product for Microsoft Excel or vis versa.
I often see ranges specified with a large terminating number, such as B3:B299
= SUM(B3:B299)Here, we are summing the values found in column B, rows 3 through 299.
Often times, the upper-bound, or largest row number is chosen to be an arbitrary large number, but ends up being insufficiently small as additional data is populated into the spreadsheet.
Does Google Sheets support some sort of syntax for indefinite intervals or indefinite row ranges?
For example, we might have...
= SUM(B3:BINF)Outside of MS Excel and Google Sheets The strings of text, INF and inf, are commonly used to represent sentinel values.
The less-than-operator < can be defined and/or overloaded such that any floating point decimal number (such as 5.81532 is less than inf)
As another example, we have INT_MAX is 2147483647 for 32-bit Integers.
I am not writing very articulately, but I want to hammer home the point that I do NOT expect to see an infinite number of rows in a spreadsheet.
Is there some sort of INF macro
Is there an alias for the largest valid index of a row allocated for that particular spreadsheet?
