{"id":198906,"date":"2007-09-30T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/microsoft-excel-cannot-be-trusted-to-add-2-and-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T03:57:00","slug":"microsoft-excel-cannot-be-trusted-to-add-2-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/30\/microsoft-excel-cannot-be-trusted-to-add-2-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Excel Cannot be Trusted to Add 2 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/09\/26\/excel_2007_bug\/\">Or at least it&#8217;s not able to compentently multiply 77.1 by 850<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is 65535, binary 1111111111111111, or 16 full bits.  This should have been caught.<\/p>\n<p>Friends don&#8217;t let friends buy Microsoft (I&#8217;m posting this from an XP machine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least it&#8217;s not able to compentently multiply 77.1 by 850. The answer is 65535, binary 1111111111111111, or 16 full bits. This should have been caught. Friends don&#8217;t let friends buy Microsoft (I&#8217;m posting this from an XP machine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[989,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}