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They may seem like random numbers, but they have a significance. If you double 2 so it is 4 and keep on doubling up, you will come to 256. If you continue to double you will come to 65536. This relates into powers of 2 or binary which is how computer memory is built.

2

4

8

16

32

64

128

256

512

1024

2048

4096

8192

16384

32768

65536

Excel 2007 has extended this further so that there are 65536 columns now and 1048576 rows:

65536

131072

262144

524288

1048576

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