On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote: > Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there > are now users of R in many of the largest financial > companies in the world. > > http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html > > is one place to look for arguments against Excel. > This was just updated to include an amusing numerical > bug in Excel 2007. Guess what 850 * 77.1 equals.
What a nasty little puzzle to set, Patrick! I had to turn to OpenOffice Calc, which told me that the answer is 65535. Is that right, Patrick? Should I check it on Excel? Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Sep-07 Time: 12:45:11 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
