• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    They already did that with visual basic and excel. Anyone remember when excels math was, just sorta right?

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      28 days ago

      How long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it’d be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.