Business a line into a spreadsheet program months ago when they shouldn’t have, according to one source close to the company. Not for the first time, human error with spreadsheets has led to disaster. There are few things more banal than the spreadsheets program, the ubiquitous software available on almost every desktop and laptop which enables the user to assemble, crunch and manipulate huge amounts of data at the click of a mouse. Excel, the program first developed by Microsoft in 1985 and now part of its Office package, dominates this market, but there are others, such as Google Sheets and Apache OpenOffice. All are perfectly efficient at making myriad calculations in a microsecond and spewing out answers. None is capable total was aggregated, would have made cle

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