[rescue] Spreadsheets
David A de Gruyl
david at bhaermandegruyl.org
Sun Jun 22 16:59:12 CDT 2003
* on [03-06-22 16:53] Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>I don't know... when I worked for a bank, we found so many math bugs in
>Excell that it was very difficult to trust it.
>Much of it was improper assumptions it made about data, and the 65K row
>limitation.
We (my coworkers and I) often run into the much more limiting 256 column
limitation. Especially when doing work which requires squares.
But it is hard to change _back_ to speciallized programs after people
have moved to excel.
David
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David de Gruyl <david at bhaermandegruyl.org>
Princeton(ish), NJ
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