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I somewhat agree, but I've bent Excel to do things that aren't "excel thinking" for literally decades.

Reshaping is something could have used many times in the past. I used to pull data into PERL first to reshape it but that took a bit of code, then I learned about numpy doing it in one line. But I still have to import back into Excel. The fact that it is in there now is useful to me.

I 1000% agree with your matlab retval suggestion however. I hate how Excel fudges array return values by just blasting a range of cells one time!

My excel knowledge has been somewhat stagnant in the past decade. Have they added an ARRAYFUNC() like in Google Sheets, or do I still need to hit "ctrl-shift-enter" to designate one?



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