[–] eesmith 4y ago ↗ Excel has long been Turing Complete.That is, many people have written Game of Life implementations in Excel. (Eg, https://github.com/Rich5/Excel-Game-of-Life ), and GoL is Turing Complete ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life ).Being able to create and call recursively defined functions is not a pre-requisite for Turing Completeness.For those who want to read the underlying MS product announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing... . [–] stefano77it 4y ago ↗ beware: the GOL implemented in https://github.com/Rich5/Excel-Game-of-Life uses VBA and not Excel formulas [–] eesmith 4y ago ↗ Indeed, I can't find a non-VBA GoL implementation for Excel.
[–] stefano77it 4y ago ↗ beware: the GOL implemented in https://github.com/Rich5/Excel-Game-of-Life uses VBA and not Excel formulas [–] eesmith 4y ago ↗ Indeed, I can't find a non-VBA GoL implementation for Excel.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] threadThat is, many people have written Game of Life implementations in Excel. (Eg, https://github.com/Rich5/Excel-Game-of-Life ), and GoL is Turing Complete ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life ).
Being able to create and call recursively defined functions is not a pre-requisite for Turing Completeness.
For those who want to read the underlying MS product announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing... .