Set a cell from within a function

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I am writing a function to calculate the area of a triangle given the lengths
of the sides. If the inputs are invalid (one side too big), I want the
function to set CELL(3,3) to one. Setting CELL(3,3)=1 in the function
doesn’t work. How can I accomplish this?
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