by Dan Moren

Numbers update get statistical and trigonometry functions, and Apple tells you what they all are

When Apple updated its iWork suite in April of last year, I complained that the company didn’t break out the full list of functions that it had added to Numbers in its 14.4 release. Subsequently, a reader did the legwork of digging into the Wayback machine to identify the additions.

Well, this week, Apple updated iWork again, including new functions for Numbers, and glory be—this time it did provide a full list of all the new functions available in the release notes. Can I hope that I played a part in this change? I’ll take it.

Of those new functions, it’s the additions of XOR (exclusive or) and DAYS (returning a number of days between two dates) that I’ll likely find the most helpful, though there are a bunch of statistical functions in there as well. I’d still love to see a MEDIANIF, alas. Maybe someday!