[R] Who uses R?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 25-Sep-07 11:11:44, Patrick Burns wrote:
> Just speaking of the field I'm most familiar with, there
> are now users of R in many of the largest financial
> companies in the world.
> 
> http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
> 
> is one place to look for arguments against Excel.
> This was just updated to include an amusing numerical
> bug in Excel 2007. Guess what 850 * 77.1 equals.

What a nasty little puzzle to set, Patrick! I had to turn
to OpenOffice Calc, which told me that the answer is 65535.
Is that right, Patrick? Should I check it on Excel?

Best wishes,
Ted.

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