An #Excel error led to an estimated 1,500 deaths in the #UK last year

source: https://nitter.eu/emollick/status/1472223729056841732

The UK #COVID contact tracing effort saved to an old Excel file format (.XLS) rather than the new one (.XLSX). The smaller row limits resulted in names being dropped & they were never contacted by tracers.

#scandal #software #health #death #problem #politics #pandemic #fail #corona #coronavirus #covid-19 #wtf #omg #news #error

Ethan Mollick auf Twitter: "Also, an Excel error led to an estimated 1,500 deaths in the UK last year. The UK COVID contact tracing effort saved to an old Excel file format (.XLS) rather than the new one (.XLSX). The smaller row limits resulted in names being dropped & they were never contacted by tracers. https://t.co/P1hauJizc8" / Twitter

#excel

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1472223729056841732

Watch these Excel pros duke it out in a financial modeling competition - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/11/22829228/excel-pros-financial-modeling-world-cup

Didn't know about this before. E-SPORT

#Excel #esport

So, it looks like we have a new release of #abap2xlsx which is of course everybody's favourite #Excel library for #SAP
Yours truly is very pleased :)

https://github.com/sapmentors/abap2xlsx/releases/tag/7.14.0

Excel Ray Tracing with Help from C

#softwarehacks #cprogramming #dll #excel #raytracing #xll #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

#excel #Microsoft #finance #system #capitalism #software #nightmare

vapour melt...

#vaporwave #laptop #melt #excel #spreadsheet

paintings in excel...

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#excel #paintings #spreadsheets #landscapes #japan

#question aux experts du #libre #libreoffice : c’est quoi le meilleur #tableur #tableurs #tableau en ligne (pour #pc #computer pas #smartphone )?
en gros la version #free d’ #excel
(désolée diaspo mais) j’ai testé #framacalc mais je n'y trouve pas mon compte
(au pire si y'a rien d'autre, je persévèrerai)