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Re:Show HN: We Built the Fastest Spreadsheet on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:46PM (#39554814)
Out of curiosity, do you support/have plans to support the broader set of Excel shortcuts that reference the ribbon? (Alt + <Key Sequence> shortcuts). Lots of excel power users more or less exclusively use the keyboard to navigate, and so have muscle memory for almost everything they do, including more niche operations (Insert Line Chart = Alt N N 1, or Change Column Width = Alt H O W).

Will be a very hard sell to banks/other financial services corps if you can't match that aspect of excel. (They will probably also want local files and a native app).

This is a fantastic follow up question. The last ball is overwhelmingly likely to be red, though this is very counterintuitive. The “all-red” urn and the “all-red-but-one” urn were equally likely to be chosen at the start. But the draws have given you a lot of info about which distribution you’ve been drawing from. Were you sampling from the all-red distribution, your draws would be totally unsurprising — you would observe a run of 99 consecutive reds 100% of the time. If you were you sampling from the all-red-but-one distribution, however, you’d only have observed this outcome 1/100 times.