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It was the maximum number of columns in Excel ....

• dtech 6y ago
  That somehow makes it even worse
• andi999 6y ago
  Columns or rows?
  • steepben 6y ago
    Columns, they were using a column per case instead of a row per case.
    • dividedbyzero 6y ago
      Is that definitive?
      • steepben 6y ago
        Nope! Actually going off better info now it looks like they WERE using rows, but it was in the old .xls format instead of .xlsx which limits to 2^16 rows https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1313149987707072512?s=20 https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1313149987707072512?...
  • maxerickson 6y ago
    Columns. Row limit is over 1 million.