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A comment on Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660. Parent comment

Re:Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 by ziml77 on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:36AM (#43612703)
For numbers they are extraneous, for strings of digits they are not.
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Re:Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 by wruza on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:03PM (#43617694)
They are never extraneous, cause no automatic calculation process produces them. If they are there, it's intentional.
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