On 25-Sep-07 12:34:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 9/25/2007 7:45 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: >> 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? > > Since Excel is the government approved gold standard, you should. > OO Calc got it wrong. The correct Excel answer is 100000. > (Only in 2007; Office 97 and 2003 had the same bug as OO Calc, > and give 65535.) > > Duncan Murdoch
Thanks, Duncan! It's good to be sure! Sadly, this has shaken my faith in R. But now I know where to turn. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Sep-07 Time: 13:51:00 ------------------------------ 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.
