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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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I remember when a biologist asked us for help - Excel crashed on processing his 700MB tables. Took some time and Chatgpt to convince him to do the analysis in R. It worked out in the end and he is now recommending this solution to his colleagues, which is nice.