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13-digit math precision is so 13th-century, all this absurd social engineering must stop!
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Actually what you suggest is to re-build Excel from the scratch and create totally new product, perhaps with old interface as functions names (but in background, form calculation engine point of view, that will be new functions). Same will be for any other (okay, at least for majority of them) spreadsheet product as Google Sheets. Microsoft is rich enough company, but I don't think they have enough resources to invest in such project, plus return of investments is unclear.
As for xlPrecisionCalc that's third party tool, that's its authors decision do they like and do they have enough resources to support the tool for modern Excel or they stopped with it. That's usual issue with any third-party tool, you never know will it be supported or not.
SergeiBaklan they upgraded their product to 365.
Did I mention this outfit built a one-off for a math theoretician that works out to a Billion Digits?"It would be a whole new Excel."
Yeah, the correct model to run the 21st-Century world of bidnizz on, in point of fact.
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Fun reading: How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
HansVogelaar Thanks for that.
And some folk can recall thousands of Pi's digits, while fewer still recall those Pi's thousands of digits in their correct sequence.In the World Of Tech that I grew up in, when a person requires a tool they cannot or do not have skills-aplenty to craft themself, they seek those who can.
The fact 13-digits is plenty for you doing your whatever kind of accounting is just fine with that, djt foreclosures perhaps, I begin my Valkyrie Shriek for beyond 128-digit accuracy so this one particular art project that has been in & out and on & off my mind since, well let's check out century calendar, shall we, 50 years, yes Half A Fricking CENTURY, waiting for you to get off your mutually-exclusive "it would take a major re-design" lazy way out.no wonder failure is your middle name control-freak show attitudes and give me a god **bleep** spreadsheet where my beautiful wall-sized spreadsheet has some digits aside from 0 zero zed zilcho where actual numbers define the space in there, but not beyond your ill-defined 13th-Century POV.
Tell me again, what is the purpose in my art being limited to your 13-digits of precision world view?
The scale has its own purpose beyond where I do need accuracy & precision both, and five digits to the right of the decimal is four too many in most worldviews, 2 is fine by me. When I need to tune a musical instrument to said frequency in said sad lonely forgotten cell.
yeesh
