May 29 2023, 17:19

Well, I’ve gotten used to the French interface on my computer and phone, and I don’t experience any inconvenience at all, but Excel made me think. I completely forgot that Excel formulas (essentially, functions) have different names in different languages. So, there is a function called DSTDEVP (standard deviation of the population with a condition) that has the following names:

English: DSTDEVP

Spanish: DESVEST.PB

French: ECARTYPEPB

German: STABW.DB

Italian: DEV.ST.P.DA

Portuguese: DESVPAD.PB

Russian: СТАНДОТКЛНУСЛ

It’s quite a hassle, indeed. Of course, my knowledge of French is insufficient to translate DSTDEVP into ECARTYPEPB

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