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Have you ever been frustrated by Excel treating blank cells as zeros? It’s a small quirk, but one that can wreak havoc on your data analysis. Whether you’re building financial models, tracking ...

Q: I found an anomaly with a rather simple Excel computation; specifically, Excel calculates 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 to equal 12,345,678,987,654,300, which is ...

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