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"Gets it right" is incredibly subjective, you cannot really expect a spreadsheet to run some number series analysis to see if there is some logic behind numbers
by aw3c2 12y ago
"Gets it right" is incredibly subjective, you cannot really expect a spreadsheet to run some number series analysis to see if there is some logic behind numbers except for some trivial cases (this one might be one, but that's debatable).
gnumeric does simply replicate the series, you get 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, etc. It does offer a tool to fill series though.
- c0nsumer 12y agoIt is subjective, but one of the things that normal users have come to like about Excel is that it does things that they would expect... Such as the number series incrementing which msandford described.
- jackmaney 12y agoCorrect. There are uncountably many sequences whose first four terms are 1, 2, 4, and 8.
- schoen 12y agoAlthough I think of the powers of two as the natural completion, OEIS finds about 1600 sequences that start 1, 2, 4, 8, and are of some mathematical or cultural interest. http://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C4%2C8&sort=&language=&go=Search http://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C4%2C8&sort=&language=&go=Se...