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Re:Show HN: Simple method to create complex Excel formulas by brinox on Saturday February 19, 2022 @05:12AM (#30395902)
Congrats, you've just discovered referential transparency :-)

Such a nice feature of functional programming languages, like excel formulae.

Re:Show HN: Simple method to create complex Excel formulas by ghastmaster on Saturday February 19, 2022 @07:33AM (#30396657)
It helps a lot that you gave me the name for the method. In the future, I can use that as a reference to explain what I'm doing or teach others, perhaps without needing to go into the details as I did here.