Re: support for more than 256 cols?

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Josh Fryman wrote:

> hi,
>
> my wife needs to do data anlysis on some simulation results.  it's about
> 360cols by 10,000rows. is there any way to get gnumeric to support more cols?
>
> patches, ideas where to fix the source, other programs she could use, 
> anything?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50881 is probably not to 
helpful, but changing the limit in your own source should be resonably 
straight forward.

Other option:

the data analysis tools as well as the build-in functions are not 
limited to work on a single sheet. You could reasonably divide your data 
onto 2 sheets (of 180cols by 10000rows), and perform the analysis then 
(I assume that each row is a record and each column a variable).

Andreas

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