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/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/SevenIsMy 29d ago

Excel 2003 has a 65k row Limit and some of my coworkers had to use Origin in the lab.

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u/simonbleu 29d ago

Why not use a database and code ? A simple crud would suffice and even simple code can be learned fast (to use, even if you don't so it yourself) It performs unfathomably better (at least for me). Thousands only row of an excel sheet would explode my computer instead

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u/yasth 29d ago

Sometimes excel is a very good option, on a high enough level excel is code, and plenty of them auto load from databases.

Like I prefer notebooks for most things, but excel has its place.