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Re: Long spreadsheets

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Date 2018-11-11 04:04 -0800
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Subject Re: Long spreadsheets
From dr.s.lartius@gmail.com

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On Sunday, 11 November 2018 11:04:42 UTC, Eike Rathke  wrote:
> * dr.s.lartius@gmail.com, 2018-11-10 22:56 UTC:
> > You should read ISO 8601, or at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.
> 
> Ok, point taken. Could work for the yyyy-Www-d form.

If that means that you are considering implementing it, be sure to work from ISO 8601, real or Wikipedia, and do not think of using DatePart.

 
> > I should have, for consistency, put yyyy-ddd ; but the condensed forms without the '-' characters are also standard and are unambiguous for a string which is known to be an ISO 8601 date.
> 
> In the context of spreadheets though any numeric input without
> separators is a number.

No; I type 33333 into my first column, and see 1999-04-05 appear; I type 9 into my third column, and see £9.00 appear.  I believe that they are stored as IEEE Doubles; but the cells know what the number should mean.  Perhaps, to help low-level work, it should be possible to format the displayed numbers as Hex or Octal, and to interpret input correspondingly.

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  (c) Dr. S. Lartius, UK.  Gmail: dr.s.lartius@

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  Re: Long spreadsheets Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2018-11-07 14:55 +0100
    Re: Long spreadsheets Eike Rathke <erack-nutznetz.n@posteo.de> - 2018-11-10 19:09 +0000
  Re: Long spreadsheets Eike Rathke <erack-nutznetz.n@posteo.de> - 2018-11-10 19:09 +0000
    Re: Long spreadsheets dr.s.lartius@gmail.com - 2018-11-10 14:56 -0800
      Re: Long spreadsheets Eike Rathke <erack-nutznetz.n@posteo.de> - 2018-11-11 11:04 +0000
        Re: Long spreadsheets dr.s.lartius@gmail.com - 2018-11-11 04:04 -0800
          Re: Long spreadsheets Eike Rathke <erack-nutznetz.n@posteo.de> - 2018-11-11 23:08 +0000
            Re: Long spreadsheets Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2018-11-17 14:00 +0100
              Re: Long spreadsheets Eike Rathke <erack-nutznetz.n@posteo.de> - 2018-11-18 01:17 +0000

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