Can someone help me with these Slope and Linest Formulas?

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I'm really curious why I'm getting different results from these different formulas. Can someone explain them to me and how they get these numbers?

Above is the data I have in columns D and F

If I use :
Code: 
'=LINEST(F4:F23,D4:D23,,TRUE)
I get 440.6991

If I use:
Code: 
'=SLOPE(F4:F23,D4:D23)
I get 440.6991

But if I use:
Code: 
'=SLOPE(IF(ISNA(D4:D23),"",D4:D23),IF(ISNA(F4:F23),"",F4:F23))
I get .00156 (which is what I think it should be)
 

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I know what I am doing. I got my ranges switched in the last formula. It's calculating X's and Y's inverted to those in the other formulas.

I apologize for the wasted thread.
 
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