Large returns the number of a given ranking in the sequence, without eliminating duplicates (dupes get a ranking too).
I thought this was your interest when I commented in this thread. Several posters gave formulas for the 2nd largest unique number, and then a couple more gave formulas to return the whole sequence of unique ranked numbers. The answer to your question is "by design" but the solution for you has already been posted. Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aindril De Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:27 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to Extract the Second Biggest number from a list of numbers Hi Sam, I had a specific question. We can use the =LARGE(<range>,2) to retrieve the 2nd highest number in most of the cases. However when I tried the same with a specific list 1,2,2,3,3 the result was 3 instead of 2 which shd be the correct answer. Can you pease check, why is this exception happening. Cheers, Andy On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Sam Mathai Chacko <samde...@gmail.com> wrote: While most of the solutions revolve around getting the second highest value from a list of duplicates, here's something that will help you get a unique list of Large values from a list of duplicates. =IF(ROW($A$1:$A$10)=ROW(),LARGE($A$1:$A$10,1),LARGE($A$1:$A$10,ROWS($A$1:$A$ 10)-COUNTIF($A$1:$A$10,"<"&INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW()-1,COLUMN())))+1)) Asa, probably something you are looking for? Regards, Sam Mathai Chacko On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Aamir Shahzad <aamirshahza...@gmail.com> wrote: Nice work Rajan. Aamir Shahzad On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:24 PM, rajan verma <rajanverma1...@gmail.com> wrote: if your list in a1:a10 then try this with CSE (ctrl+shift+Enter) =MAX(IF(A1:A10<>MAX(A1:A10),A1:A10)) On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:31 AM, dguillett1 <dguille...@gmail.com> wrote: Although the ORIGINAL post said nothing about DUPLICATES Using your sample, In P1 =LARGE(O:O,1) and in P2 =SMALL(O:O,COUNTIF(O:O,"<="&Q1)-ROW(A2)) copied down Don Guillett SalesAid Software dguille...@gmail.com From: Asa Rossoff <mailto:a...@lovetour.info> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:29 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to Extract the Second Biggest number from a list of numbers Hi Don, If you mean each row will show the 1st, 2nd, 3rd largest, etc., disregarding duplicates.. doesn't work for me. Tested with this somewhat arbirtary data set: 1 1 1 5 5 8 9 9 11 11 Your formulas return: 11 9 9 8 5 5 5 1 1 1 1 (Even more values than were in the original list) Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dguillett1 Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:45 AM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to Extract the Second Biggest number from a list of numbers or this copied down =SMALL(I:I,FREQUENCY(I:I,MAX(I:I)-(ROW(A1)-1))) Don Guillett SalesAid Software dguille...@gmail.com From: Haseeb Avarakkan <mailto:haseeb.avarak...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:04 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to Extract the Second Biggest number from a list of numbers You can also use SMALL function like, =SMALL(A:A,FREQUENCY(A:A,MAX(A:A)-1)) will give the 2nd largest number, even if you have duplicate or not. ___________ HTH, Haseeb -- FORUM RULES (934+ members already BANNED for violation) 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. 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