The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Select the cell(s) where you want the text to appear vertically. Go to the Home tab in the top ribbon. In the Alignment group, click the Orientation drop-down arrow. Choose Vertical Text from the list ...

When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN. The Latvian financial consultant ...

Take advantage of the MethodImplAttribute class in C# to inline methods and improve the execution speed of your .NET applications. The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language ...

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Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through a sprawling Excel workbook, struggling to locate the exact worksheet you need? For those managing complex datasets or collaborative projects, ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...

Learn how to use Microsoft Excel step by step in this beginner-friendly tutorial. If you're new to Excel or want to understand the basics, this video shows you how to get started using Excel right ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...

Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models. "Microsoft does not use ...