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I once read somewhere, maybe here: "If I were to choose a single software to use for the rest of my life, it'd be Excel". I agree with that.
by rubslopes 4y ago
I once read somewhere, maybe here: "If I were to choose a single software to use for the rest of my life, it'd be Excel". I agree with that.
- hulitu 4y ago... until all your numbers become dates.
- aloisdg 4y ago... or until all your molecules become dates.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoWhy do I remember awk with that story?
- dugmartin 4y agoOr all your zip codes with leading zeros get silently truncated.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoOr until all your 16 digit IDs get truncated...
- SantalBlush 4y agoOr until your empty cells aren't truly empty, so you can't count the nonempty cells.
- hef19898 4y agoThat reminds of a jokester who replaced all empty cells in small spread sheet with a space. Good lick figuring out why your 5 row table all of a sudden was in the giga bytes of size (obvious exageration for dramatic reasons). Was a good practical joke so!
- OGWhales 4y agoOr your numbers are wrong because you didn't wrap in parentheses. Example, put these two formulas in excel: =(4/3 - 1)*3 - 1 =((4/3 - 1)*3 - 1)
- dns_snek 4y agoThe online version, at least, seems to be wrong when you do wrap it in parentheses: =(4/3 - 1)*3 - 1 = 0 =((4/3 - 1)*3 - 1) = -2.22045E-16
- OGWhales 4y agoCheck out page 3-5 of this paper called How Futile are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation? [0]. It explains what is happening here better than I can and is where I got this example from. [0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf
- MisterSandman 4y agoWouldn't python be a better answer, or is that cheating?
- arminiusreturns 4y agoEmacs would be the real cheating answer.
- tmtvl 4y agoCreate a table in org mode, pass it to Common Lisp (or Perl or Scheme or R or whatever else floats your boat), and finally hand the thing over to graphviz for an in-line view of the results... and you can write up the relevant formulas with LaTeX.
- joeman1000 4y agoEverything in Julia src-blocks please. Super comfy.
- ryzvonusef 4y agoIs python really considered "software" in common parlance? I think the comparable item would be something like VSCode.
- diego_sandoval 4y agoI would choose a web browser.