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[Bucky Carr]

Thanks for posting this. Now I understand how someone could exceed 65k 
rows (and 10^6 rows for that matter).


On 6/30/2021 8:32 AM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:18:00 -0600
> Rob Nagler wrote:
>
>> Bucky Carr writes:
>>> I have no idea how someone would use 65535 rows much less 1 million.
>> You are correct, 2^20 is the limit. I still wonder why there is a limit,
>> especially for modern computers.
> I came across an article mentioning this, and other vagaries of
> spreadsheets.
> https://www.inkl.com/news/the-tyranny-of-spreadsheets
>
> Primarily, of course, about Excel, but how many of these traits are present
> in Gnumeric and OfficeCalc? I've never had reason to plumb the limits of
> either of them.
>
> Also, saving using an older file format will hit the limit, regardless of
> the version of the software. I wonder whether there's an error message.
>

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