Classification of Spreadsheet Errors — mentioned by belter

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:55:08 GMT

I have the impression today you will be one of the 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/ But you are correct, this entire site is full of idiots confidently spouting nonsense... :-) "Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel" - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365... "Classification of Spreadsheet Errors" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/0805.4224 "A study conducted by Coopers & Lybrand found errors in 90% of the spreadsheets audited." "Impact of Errors in Operational Spreadsheets" - https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0715 "What We Don’t Know About Spreadsheet Errors…

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Classification of Spreadsheet Errors — mentioned by belter