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by nl 135 days ago
Did you actually read these or just Google for problems?

> "Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel"

Well.. yes? That's what floating point numbers do.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40168077/floating-point-...

So what?

> "Classification of Spreadsheet Errors"

It's a taxonomy of the types of bugs spreadsheets have.

There are these for most other programming languages too.

etc, etc

Look, my first job was translating an Excel spreadsheet into an actual application and we found errors all the time.

Once Excel spreadsheets get too complicated they tend to fall apart. This is very well known by people who use it heavily.

It doesn't mean that it is useless.