40 Years In The Deserr: Microsoft Excel Cannot be Trusted to Add 2 and 2

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Or at least it's not able to compentently multiply 77.1 by 850.

The answer is 65535, binary 1111111111111111, or 16 full bits. This should have been caught.

Friends don't let friends buy Microsoft (I'm posting this from an XP machine).

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