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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzOPtomemes@lemmy.worldConverting numbers is easy
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    9 days ago

    1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns?

    Nothing. Here’s this meme’s origin story:

    At work we have a tool that imports Excel spreadsheets into user-defined data records. We let the user decide which column goes into which record field.

    Today I noticed that when you upload a spreadsheet with more than 26 columns (that is, you enter the double-digit range), the columns aren’t sorted anymore. (When I programmed that, stupid me thought that it was absolutely unreasonable to import 26 columns, given the way the data is processed later.) Instead of A…Z, AA, AB, …, it was A, AA, AB, B, C, ….

    So I thought: I should fix that. It’s easy. Just convert the hexavigesimal system to decimal and sort based on that. I even was happy that I could apply some school knowledge for once. (It wasn’t all useless, yay!) Then my math wasn’t mathing. It took me a few minutes to find the system by which Excel columns are numbered. In the end I was annoyed that a task of 5 minutes took… longer… and made this meme.

    By the way, to come back to the 10² columns: I’ll take any bet that such a spreadsheet will be shoved into the importer before I retire from my current company.