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by whalesalad 26 days ago
They're going to run out of letters pretty soon.
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gruez 26 days ago
Anyone in finance should know that excel doesn't run out of letters (for columns) either. It just rolls over to AA, AB, etc.
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onychomys 26 days ago
They eventually stop, Excel has a max column size of 16,384. Not sure what letter combo that would be (ZZZZZZZZZZ or something?), but it does eventually halt.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specificati...

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HDBaseT 26 days ago
Not even close, column 16,384 ends at XFD. [0].

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4888467/...

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