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Percentile – Apple Numbers '08 User Manual

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Chapter 12

Dictionary of Functions

PERCENTILE

The PERCENTILE function finds the value within a range of values that corresponds to a
particular percentile.

PERCENTILE(data, percentile)

 data: A range of cells containing the data.
 percentile: The percentile value you want to find.

PI

The PI function returns the approximate value of pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference
to its diameter, accurate to 15 decimal places.

PI()

 No arguments (but you must include the parentheses).

Examples

Given the following table:

PERCENTILE(A2:E2, 0.5) returns 80, the 50th percentile of the range.

PERCENTILE(A4:E4, 0.5) returns 90, the 50th percentile of the range.

Examples

PI() returns 3.14159265358979.

SIN(PI()/2) returns 1, the sine of PI/2 radians or 90 degrees.