[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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