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How could I apply a formula to each cell in a column before computing a sum of the cells in Google spreadsheet?

In other words, I have a column of cells with numbers. And what I want is to iterate over each row in the column (i.e. each cell), apply a formula to the number in the cell and get a result of the formula. Then I want to sum all of those results.

And all of this I would like to perform in one cell (i.e. in one query).

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  • what formula you want to apply?
    – user0
    Feb 4, 2019 at 19:20
  • @MARKMYANSWER, I want to calculate the variance manually (I am aware of the VAR function). Thank you.
    – iamyourfriend
    Feb 4, 2019 at 19:22
  • I wasn't referring to VAR function... you say: "apply a formula to the number in the cell and get a result of the formula. Then I want to sum all of those results." and I ask: what formula you want to apply to the number in the cell before you sum the results of this application?
    – user0
    Feb 4, 2019 at 19:29

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=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA((B2:B26-$B$1)^2))/A1

=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(A1:A4*(SUM(2, 3))))

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