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		layer8 on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Regular expression functions in Excel It may appear obvious, but only a very limited subset of real-life spreadsheets could meaningfully take advantage of it. Excel does not support GPU-accelerated calculations.

nickpeterson on May 24, 2024 [–]

doesnt the back-end of excel have a columnar data model that can store millions of records in a single excel file?

recursive on May 24, 2024 | [–]

The front-end of excel doesn't allow the creation of more than 1048576 rows in a sheet. (1<<20)

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