Comments on: Microsoft Excel needs math lessons

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:18:06 +0000

Back in the late 90s MS had a fairly common problem with their floating point math library. When trying to round numbers the DLL would work correctly for even numbers, but odd numbers were truncated vs. rounded. I say this was common because floating point math is complex and MS was not the only company with a faulty library.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:25:52 +0000

It’s funny because there are better free alternatives for spread sheeting such as OpenOffice.org’s Calc that don’t have ugly hacks like this beneath the surface. Yet, everyone uses Excel “because it’s made by Microsoft”

By: Nate Lee

Nate Lee — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:18:26 +0000

Sorry, I don’t get the joke – why is it “hilarious” that THE primary business spreadsheet application has a fairly serious bug? This seems more concerning than funny, to me.

And WOW, this is the most acute case of “pot calling kettle black” I’ve seen in a while – a nerd at BGR calling a programmer a “nerd”.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:47:06 +0000

Rontflmfao

It’s too much.