[victorbjorklund]

First statement maybe yes. Hard to find any software used in so many places with so much money / importance etc.

Second statement hard no. It is a good balance of ease of use, familarity and power but for sure not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale.

[EricE]

"not even close to being the most powerful tool to crunch numbers on scale." So what tool would be that's as broadly accessible as Excel is?

[kube-system]

"powerful" is being used there in terms of real world impact: intuitively powerful. Not as in "raw compute power".

[hot_gril]

Yeah, the crown for raw computer power for crunching numbers at scale would probably go to CUDA or, better yet, TPU job executors.

[kube-system]

The fastest supercomputer is actually running AMD chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)