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by harry8 1013 days ago
it's the web. links die. There's enough there to find the papers if you care. Which you clearly don't.

>Excel keeps all the bugs for backwards compatibility

They /fixed/ rand(). Announcements. Fanfare. The fixed version returned numbers less than zero.

yet again excel's calculating issues go way beyond double precision floating point truncation.