• Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    19 hours ago

    All that math you learned? Forget it. You’re in spreadsheet land now.

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      30 minutes ago

      Did you like those fancy tools they gave you in school? You can cling to your memories of them as you attempt to recreate their functionality in excel without your boss noticing that you’re wasting time on this

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      16 hours ago

      That being said, it’s important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company’s configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just…making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.