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Don't trust Excel's COUNTA function to count non-blank cells—here's a better method

Counting non-empty cellsThe COUNTBLANK-COUNTA conflict (and how to fix it)Summary: Choosing the right counting functionIn most counting scenarios in Excel, COUNTBLANK reliably counts blank cells, and ...
CNN

Crows can count up to four, a new study finds

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Slate

Redditors Are Counting to Infinity

This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...
TechRepublic

How to conditionally count the number of times any value occurs in Excel

How to conditionally count the number of times any value occurs in Excel Your email has been sent Specifying the conditional count of a value sounds like a daunting task, but two Excel functions make ...
Polygon

The man who made Sesame Street’s Count Von Count count

In 1972, early into his tenure at Sesame Street, Norman Stiles thought up a pun. The former Merv Griffin comedy writer had spent his first year penning scripts around the kids program’s strict ...