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Well, yes but far less... I see Ariane 5 disaster due to an overflow error, but never seen the International monetary found that publish a false study due to an
by xte 8y ago
Well, yes but far less... I see Ariane 5 disaster due to an overflow error, but never seen the International monetary found that publish a false study due to an excel calculus bug nor scientific studies with false result due to excel bugs...
Spreadsheets IME are environment that really help human error and disguise them well enough...
About solidity I can't answer having not enough data, I can only say that I still have to see anything more efficient than Emacs in the world and I see software since around twenty years...
- jen729w 8y agoThe IMF error was a problem with the way that the humans had weighted their numbers in Excel. It was a human error. Excel was the tool they used, but it was not the cause of the error.
- xte 8y agoYes, but it's UI, not as "excel" but as "spreadsheet" certainly help a lot... Try to "debug" a not so small spreadsheet vs a script+tabular data and compare the chances of get erroneous results that does not appear immediately as errors...