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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 03:11 PM EDT |
You don't understand. This is a messenger bashing exercise
and Excel was closest, it gets the blame.
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- No, no, no - Authored by: PolR on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 06:11 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
... pencil and paper...
... calculator ...
Human math errors
that were not validated is the bottom line in this case....
.... even if
I would dearly love to see an actual Excel bug (like 1900 = leap year) be the
cause of a massive calculation error, it's not the case in this
instance.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 05:58 PM EDT |
The problem as I see it is that because the spreadsheet does the math we assume
that it must be correct. At least close because it was done by a computer. The
spreadsheet hides the formulai used for the calculation so errors are not
noticed unless they are glaring or you go hunting for them. The error mentioned
was quite probably caused by adding additional rows to the spreadsheet without
fixing the formula. The totals still showed up so the formula must be working,
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