MIT The World of spreadsheets and simple graphing

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Spreadsheets

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Good

  • Spreadsheet's is a low entry point for an application framework, in the same way that WordPress is a website framework
    • You don't have to be a developer/programmer

The Bad

  • Spreadsheets are used to make applications
    • You don't have to be a developer/programmer
    • Complex spreadsheets suffer from errors; become difficult to troubleshoot

The Ugly


The World of Spreadsheets

  • Gnumeric most powerful spreadsheet program
    • Single editor environment
    • Size Limit: Max rows: 16,777,216; Max Columns: 16,384; Max Cells: 274,877,906,944
    • Project doesn't provide Windows binaries; lag for latest version to be ported to Windows or Macintosh
  • Libre Calc
    • Single editor environment
    • Size Limit: each sheet can have a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and a maximum of 1024 columns.
      • Each document has a size limit of 4 GB
  • Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Excel
    • Single editor environment
    • x32 bit vs. x64 bit
    • Size Limit: 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns
      • x32 bit: Each document limited to 2GB
      • x64 bit: Each document limited by system physical memory