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I agree with it, but it's a wild world we live in when the best spreadsheet has default behaviors which will fuck your data pasted into it when you're not paying attention.


Yeah, its also awesome when you open a CSV with long numbers like tracking numbers or IMEIs and they get converted to scientific notation and lose "precision" when saved in Excel format...


Exactly what I'm talking about. I'm sure there's other gremlins in there, but this one bites me the most often, and the hardest.

The one failure mode is so fucking insidious where it zeros out your last 2 digits, but otherwise it looks like it pasted OK!




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