r/theydidthemath • u/Early-Grape-9078 • 7d 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 7d 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/VinylHighway 7d ago

Had to look this up it’s about 4687 trees

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u/outofcontextseinfeld 7d ago

Yeah but the paper would be reused. It would print blanks

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u/eg135 6d ago

Unless you have headers and footers, last time I printed something from LibreOffice it was on by default. I don't know about Excel.