Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
To people asking, "why do they use Excel?" that's like asking "why must we be subjected to gravity?"<p>The whole world's data ultimately comes from or ends up in an Excel spreadsheet. Sure, we might use other intermediate data storage methods, but in the end it's going to go into some scientist's or some politician's computer, and by golly it's gonna be in Excel. Trying to rally against Excel is like trying to rally against fundamental forces of nature.<p>This is just an example of that fundamental force winning.