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Asked: 2026-06-13T14:09:46+00:00

To phrase it differently, how many cells must you go down, up, left, and

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To phrase it differently, how many cells must you go down, up, left, and right before you find a cell with value “#”?

The desired end result is for the cell to display how directions you can go at least ‘x’ cells before you find a cell that has the value “#”.

I am a bit of a newb, and am sure this question is not exactly the normal sort, but I can’t seem to find any information anywhere that would point me to a solution of any kind.

battleship board distribution of possible placements for four tile long ship: turn 0

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battleship board distribution of possible placements for four tile long ship: turn 1

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  1. Editorial Team

    I fiddled a little bit before going to work.

    Ended up with a partial formula 

    =MIN(ROW(B2)-ROW(Upper_edge),ROW(Lower_edge)-ROW(B2),COLUMN(B2)-COLUMN(Left_edge),COLUMN(Right_edge)-COLUMN(B2),MATCH("#",INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(B2),COLUMN(B2)+1) & ":" & ADDRESS(ROW(B2),COLUMN(Right_edge)))))

    The formula needs workout for MATCH to left, up and down, similar to the MATCH in the formula

    The Excel file is available in
    http://www.bumpclub.ee/~jyri_r/Excel/Battleship_distance.xls

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