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101 Reasons to Turn from Excel to Calc

(For fun)
An Excel error has changed the global economics.  Time to turn from
Excel to Calc now! XD

Math in a Time of Excel: Economists' Error Undermines Influential Paper
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/reinhart-rogoff-debt-GDP-spreadsheet-error/

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Re: 101 Reasons to Turn from Excel to Calc

Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:28 PM, imacat <im...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> wrote:
> (For fun)
> An Excel error has changed the global economics.  Time to turn from
> Excel to Calc now! XD
>
> Math in a Time of Excel: Economists' Error Undermines Influential Paper
> http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/reinhart-rogoff-debt-GDP-spreadsheet-error/
>

And there was this article recently in Forbes:

"Microsoft's Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/13/microsofts-excel-might-be-the-most-dangerous-software-on-the-planet/

These look like human errors, not application bugs.  But the real
criticism is we use spreadsheets for very complex financial models
which are error-prone and hard to verify.

Would you believe that there is actually a society and an annual
conference dedicated to spreadsheet errors?

Look here:  http://www.eusprig.org/

-Rob

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