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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by dmoney on Sunday January 11, 2009 @07:13PM (#429866)
Recursion is fun, but how would you use it in a spreadsheet?
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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by RK on Monday January 12, 2009 @01:25PM (#430851)
Changing values in place?

A1 = 0.1*A1

Can be useful if you need to convert values, etc., but don't want to create an entire new row/column

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by ph0rque on Sunday January 11, 2009 @09:24PM (#429983)
Can't think of a concrete example at the moment, but there have been cases when I had to make a financial model with a lot of columns (and rows) where a recursive algorithm would have presented the result I was looking for using a lot less cells.
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