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Division with a negative value

hendricksk
7 - Meteor

I have a simple question; I need Alteryx to divide a negative number. It keeps saying Unknown Variable.

-555.555/1000. Attached is the formula.

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apathetichell
19 - Altair

not sure what's in your data but this erorr isn't related to a negative/positive number.

you have tonumber([field]/1000). if field isn't already a number - this is an error. if it is already a number - no need to wrap it in tonumber.

 

maybe

 

tonumber([field])/1000?

 

do you have a field called k$/period? maybe you mean:

[k$]/[period] (two other fields?)

hendricksk
7 - Meteor

I took the ToNumber out of the formula, there seemed to be still an error. However, I just rewrote the same formula and the error went away. Thank you so much for your help!!

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