Which of these 2 functions should I choose?

[MyTech]

A quick question.

Which of these 2 functions should I use - which one will use less CPU etc?


I want to return "1" for every 3,6,8,11,14,17 or 19th of every 19 numbers, and a "0" for the others.

1. IF(MOD(MOD(MOD(MOD(MOD(MOD(MOD(<Number>,19),17),14),11),8),6),3)=0,1,0)
   
2. CHOOSE(MOD(<Number>-1,19)+1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1)

I believe #2 will do much less work, tell me if I am wrong.

 

[vbaInet]

Because this is the Access section of the forum I will say NONE.

Are you doing this in Excel?

 

[MyTech]

I'm planning to do it in access, I just do now the testings in Excel.

 

[vbaInet]

Not the ideal way of going about things. Access and Excel are two different applications and there are lots of differences in the way to reach a solution.

The Access way would be to use a SELECT case statement in a function.

 

[MyTech]

Right, thank you.

I didn't think enough (of the 'interpreting to Access' part) before asking.

 

[vbaInet]

You're welcome!