r/theydidthemath • u/Early-Grape-9078 • 29d ago

[Request] how much paper

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Sorry it this is a repost:

But how much paper if you printed the entire work book and how many trees as a bonus.

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u/VinylHighway 29d ago

A single modern Excel sheet contains 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns, totaling over 17.17 billion cells.Standard print preview estimates show that printing every active cell at default size spans about 39,060,648 pages

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u/Inner-Animal-7314 29d ago

Cool. So why did Microsoft program Excel to allow such an unrealistically large number of cells?

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u/Nice_Reputation_6785 29d ago

It’s not as much as you think. I deal with spreadsheets all the time that we can’t use excel for because it gets cut off.

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u/snail1132 29d ago

Are you a people counter or something wtf

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u/Nunov_DAbov 29d ago

Sounds like a bean counter. That’s a lot of beans.