A number of recent posts feel to me like consequences of not choosing the right tool for the job. I see a spreadsheet as a simple tool for easily solving simple problems of a type anticipated by the spreadsheet programmer -- mainly small business accounting. If you want to do serious stats, you need a stats package. (Actually, though gnumeric is better at stats than its competitors, I would say if you want to do ANY stats. you need a stats package;-) If you want to mess with humongous matrices you might need a linear algebra program such as Octave (though many tools could probably access the same data structure as both A and the transpose of A just by manipulating it by rows instead of columns -- there is no need for redundant storage). If you want to slice and dice output the Unix command line is heaven. If you want no rounding error you need to use binary coded decimal. Trying to make gnumeric be all things to all people is the best way to turn it into bloatware.
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