Re:Make up your own rules of probability
by mturmon on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:30PM
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I can verify that this practice is still common. I have been amazed at the size and complexity of some spreadsheets in aerospace applications.
It's so clearly the wrong thing, and yet the authors of these beasts are always really pleased with their efforts.
Besides the "old shoe" feeling of Excel, I think there's something about the automatic updating done by the spreadsheet that users find gratifying. You alter a cell and the program launches into a bunch of updates automatically. It's like seeing the array of blinking lights.
It's so clearly the wrong thing, and yet the authors of these beasts are always really pleased with their efforts.
Besides the "old shoe" feeling of Excel, I think there's something about the automatic updating done by the spreadsheet that users find gratifying. You alter a cell and the program launches into a bunch of updates automatically. It's like seeing the array of blinking lights.