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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)
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[โ€“] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

excel math is fine if you use the syntax correctly. Its problems are mostly assume many number inputs as dates and other performance issues. Doing math wrong is not one of them.

[โ€“] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

No there were math errors. Was it using statistical functions? I can't recall, I just know we had to double check everything.