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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel's storage of numbers in binary format also affects its accuracy. [3] To illustrate, the lower figure tabulates the simple addition 1 + x − 1 for several values of x. All the values of x begin at the 15 th decimal, so Excel must take them into account. Before calculating the sum 1 + x, Excel first approximates x as a binary number

  3. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

  4. Billion laughs attack - Wikipedia

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    In the most frequently cited example, the first entity is the string "lol", hence the name "billion laughs". At the time this vulnerability was first reported, the computer memory used by a billion instances of the string "lol" would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.

  5. Math in a Time of Excel: Economists' Error Undermines ... - AOL

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    Getty Images Harvard University professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff are at the top of the economics profession, with influence inside and outside the ...

  6. Floating-point error mitigation - Wikipedia

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    Variable length arithmetic represents numbers as a string of digits of a variable's length limited only by the memory available. Variable-length arithmetic operations are considerably slower than fixed-length format floating-point instructions.

  7. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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    Example of a spreadsheet holding data about a group of audio tracks. A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. [1] [2] [3] Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. [4] The program operates on data entered in cells of a table.

  8. $3B accounting error means the Pentagon can send more ... - AOL

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    The Pentagon has overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Kyiv. It means the Defense Department can send more weapons now without asking Congress for more money.

  9. Error code - Wikipedia

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