The formula returns the surface area of a cone with radius given in column B and height given in column C. Units are indicated generically with “u”, and the resulting area is units squared (u2).
The Greek letter π (“pi”) represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. In Excel, π is represented in a formula with the PI function, which returns the number 3.14159265358979, accurate to 15 digits: To square a number in Excel, you can use the exponentiation operator (^): To get the square root of a number, you can use the SQRT function: Rewriting the formula for surface area of a cone with Excel’s math operators, we get: Following Excel’s order of operations, exponentiation will occur before multiplication.
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