I posted the following on Stack Overflow:

I recommend using the following range formula:

| Year (Beginn) | Price | Increase |

|---------------+----------+----------|

| 2016 | 20000.00 | 1000.00 |

| 2017 | | 1000.00 |

| 2018 | | 1000.00 |

| 2019 | | 1000.00 |

| 2020 | | 1000.00 |

| 2021 | | 1000.00 |

| 2022 | | 1000.00 |

| 2023 | | 1000.00 |

| 2024 | | 1000.00 |

| 2025 | | 1000.00 |

| 2026 | | 1000.00 |

| 2027 | | 1000.00 |

| 2028 | | 1000.00 |

| 2029 | | 1000.00 |

| 2030 | | 1000.00 |

|---------------+----------+----------|

#+TBLFM: @<<<$2..@>$2=@<<$0+2*vsum(@<<$3..@-1$3);%.2f

You could write a recursive formula, but that would propagate one row at a time. Even org-table-iterate (C-u C-u C-c * on any table cell) would have to be called more than once, since it stops after 10 iterations.

Shankar Rao

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:35 AM, <michael.zombok@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have the following table:

| Year (Beginn) | Price | Increase |
|---------------+----------+----------|
| 2016 | 20000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2017 | | 1000.00 |
| 2018 | | 1000.00 |
| 2019 | | 1000.00 |
| 2020 | | 1000.00 |
| 2021 | | 1000.00 |
| 2022 | | 1000.00 |
| 2023 | | 1000.00 |
| 2024 | | 1000.00 |
| 2025 | | 1000.00 |
| 2026 | | 1000.00 |
| 2027 | | 1000.00 |
| 2028 | | 1000.00 |
| 2029 | | 1000.00 |
| 2030 | | 1000.00 |
|---------------+----------+----------|

I want to compute the price recursively such that the final table looks
like this:

| Year (Beginn) | Price | Increase |
|---------------+----------+----------|
| 2016 | 20000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2017 | 22000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2018 | 24000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2019 | 26000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2020 | 28000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2021 | 30000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2022 | 32000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2023 | 34000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2024 | 36000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2025 | 38000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2026 | 40000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2027 | 42000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2028 | 44000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2029 | 46000.00 | 1000.00 |
| 2030 | 48000.00 | 1000.00 |
|---------------+----------+----------|
After reading a related SO question I tried the formula

#+TBLFM: @<<<..>$2=@<<..>>$2+2*$3

but it doesn't work. It gives an error and also seems to operate on
column one instead of the specified column two. Any idea how to
correctly compute column two? I am using org-mode version 8.2.5c with
Emacs version 24.5.1.

Disclaimer: I posted this question also on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33063425/recursive-formulaes-in-org-mode-tables

Feel free to answer here or there.

Thanks!

Best,
Michael