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Re:Ask HN: Why Does Excel Default to Scientific Freaking Not... by thfuran on Sunday March 12, 2023 @05:04PM (#35126278)
There is no universally least astonishing thing for something with usecases as varied as excel. But I suspect that treating numbers as text is close to maximally astonishing.
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