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90% of spreadsheets contain errors. Sometimes I wonder if much of the purpose of spreadsheets is to get the desired answer. I believe that in fields that use spreadsheets, 90% of papers are affected by such errors. More tentatively, I believe that same rate of fields that use special-purpose code, where neq1 estimates 20%.
Source (scroll down to the last line of the first spreadsheet)
It's kind of ironic that a spreadsheet is used as evidence of spreadsheets being almost always wrong. (I am not being serious.)