1) — unlike arrays in most languages — and each cell holds a value with its own optional unit. Cells may carry different units, or none.
The same table can appear in three places — written in an equation, returned by the API, or sent as input. The notation differs; the table is the same.
In equations
In an activity equation, a table is a bracketed literal with semicolons separating entries (commas are never used as they can be confused with decimal or thousands separators). A bare list is a single column —[3; 4; 5] is three rows of one column — and nesting a bracketed list adds columns:
Element-wise operations
- With a scalar — applies to every cell:
[1; 2; 3] * 2→[2; 4; 6]. - With another table — element-wise; shapes must match:
[1; 2] + [3; 4]→[4; 6].
item, row, column, subset, lookup, sort, append, length, width) or aggregate them with statistics functions (sum, avg, stddev).
As a stored value
When a table is returned by the API or held in a scenario, it is represented as an array of strings — one per cell, each combining the value and its unit. Because the unit lives inside each cell, a table variable’s ownunit is empty.