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markus_zhang on July 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

Oops I definitely got it wrong. Probably a bit more than a thousand columns now that I think about it. Still a beast. The thing is a database with every column a product id.

mkl on July 23, 2021 [–]

I was thinking maybe that meant an older version had a limit of 1024, but according to https://www.askingbox.com/info/xls-and-xlsx-maximum-number-o... it has always been 256 for .xls and 16384 for .xlsx.

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