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by zdw 2456 days ago
As much as I like spreadsheets and other general purpose numerical analysis tools, I wish there was a restricted subset of their functionality that could be used that was more formally verifiable, to prevent issues like this and Reinhart–Rogoff (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho... ) from being a common occurrence.