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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by Kamq on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:42PM (#32370527)
> So, if you have `1234` in A1 and `5678` in B1, `=A1+B1` should by default produce `VALUE ERROR` rather than `6912`?

If they were text, I'd expect it to end up as `12345678`, personally. + being reasonably commonly overloaded to mean string concatenation.

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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by oarsinsync on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:42PM (#32370945)
Excel uses & for string concatenation. Excel considers + to be an arithmetic operation. Excel is a spreadsheet.
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by replygirl on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:36PM (#32371377)
you are so not the target user my dude
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by Kamq on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:44AM (#32374185)
Maybe, but it seems weird for it to be completely unreasonable for operator overloading to be a thing, but also expect the user to have a working knowledge of basic data types.
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by fragmede on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:58PM (#32370633)
Wat.
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