How does Excel, with a few relatively big 5MB spreadsheets open, use 2GB of RAM? Isn’t all the data it’ll ever need to process hundreds of times less than that?

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How does Excel, with a few relatively big 5MB spreadsheets open, use 2GB of RAM? Isn’t all the data it’ll ever need to process hundreds of times less than that?

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like you can’t remember everything. so you look things up from time to time. if you know it, then the response is fast bc it’s in your head. if you don’t know it, you look it up somewhere and thus it’s slower. computers are the same way

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