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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
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Date: 15 Nov 89 22:59:19 GMT
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Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson)
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In article <32578@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> Note the title of this post. Guys, an order of magnitude is a factor of
> 10. Two orders of magnitude is a factor of 100. A factor of two is not an
> order of magnitude (or two).

Yup, that is exactly what I meant! I finally left my MacPlus runing
with my big spreadsheet (2100 rows and 24 columns (my personal
bookkeeping for the last 12 months)) which took 20mins to recompute. I
left that runing with Excel 2.2 over the night and it was still
running at breakfast. When I stopped 2.2, it was still at 'Table:1'
and had 2 more to go, so it sure was a magnitude by then (~24 times) and was
heading towards two magnitudes.

Maybe I have a very heavy sheet as I reach magnitudes of difference,
whereas other people suffer 2-3 times.

But I still have 18% memory left in Excel 1.5 so I can survive until
2.3-5 arrives with hopefully something better.

/hans
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