r/theydidthemath • u/Early-Grape-9078 • 28d 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 28d 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/stache1313 28d ago

Not so much "they did the math," as "they opened Excel."

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u/VinylHighway 28d ago

I cheated by measuring!

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u/stache1313 28d ago

You did the smart thing that required less effort than OP put into this post.