On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:28 PM, imacat <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> wrote: > (For fun) > An Excel error has changed the global economics. Time to turn from > Excel to Calc now! XD > > Math in a Time of Excel: Economists' Error Undermines Influential Paper > http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/reinhart-rogoff-debt-GDP-spreadsheet-error/ >
And there was this article recently in Forbes: "Microsoft's Excel Might Be The Most Dangerous Software On The Planet" http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/13/microsofts-excel-might-be-the-most-dangerous-software-on-the-planet/ These look like human errors, not application bugs. But the real criticism is we use spreadsheets for very complex financial models which are error-prone and hard to verify. Would you believe that there is actually a society and an annual conference dedicated to spreadsheet errors? Look here: http://www.eusprig.org/ -Rob > -- > Best regards, > imacat ^_*' <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> > PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc > > <<Woman's Voice>> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ > Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ > Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ > OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ > EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ > Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
