Sun 4 May 2008
BotT: Excel 2007 has algebra difficulties…
Posted by Shmuel Gershon under Bug of this Time, Nerd T35t1ng, Test Insight
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Do you use MS Office 2007?
Well, then you probably noticed that Excel multiplies “850 x 77.1″ as “100,000″ instead of “65,535″.
Uh, you didn’t notice? Well neither did I until I read it all over the internet.
See the post on SlashDot for scoop, and see its comments for some good laughs.
There are explanations all around about how this bug came to appear in Excel.
The best one is probably Joel’s one (you may remember Joel from this post). (more…)