What is the crowd's opinion of Spread32?

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I used MCEdit to generate 99856 chunks (25 sq km) with the 1.9 Pre4 server jar file. Then I used MCEdit to analyze the bottom 20 rows one by one, typing the data into Spread32 (shareware spreadsheet program) as a went. At the end, I used Google Docs to generate the graphs, and print screen and Gimp2 (open-source graphics program) to edit the charts.

state holders st. pop. % of st. pop. with concealment license Louisiana 39958 4533372 00.881% Kansas 36601 2853118 01.283% Texas 461724 25145561 01.836% Oklahoma 76074 3751351 02.028% Arizona 162688 6392017 02.545% Virginia 238395 8001024 02.980% Florida 843463 18801310 04.486% Idaho 71249 1567582 04.545% Utah 293651 2763885 10.625%

I confirmed all the numbers of holders from mostly first-hand sources from their respective state. On another state I used data from a news article. State populations were copied from Wikipedia. The shareware Spread32 (windows-based spreadsheet) was used to calculate the percentages. It's worth noting that Utah has a licence that is accepted in a lot of states. It is one of the best five non-resident licenses. I'm wondering if this number includes license holders that reside in other states. The number is listed as "total valid permits as of X".

Sorry about the delay responding - it's been a crazy month.

The apps I've gotten the most use out of over the years has been Word, honestly, writing on the 360LX in either TXT or RTF format, and then transferring over to a bigger PC. Excel I always found more frustrating, so I used SpreadCE instead, since it supported common desktop formats and was better featured. I've got a couple games on it (somewhere, I still have the old Microsoft Entertainment Pack), have Hum installed for when I still played mp3s on it regularly, and early on, it was my main ebook reader, thanks to Mobipocket Reader. I've also tried doing some light coding with BasiCE and PocketC, and would check email or look things up on the web using my cell phone as a modem back in the late '90s/early-2000s, before smartphones were really a thing.

Beyond that, how I've used it depended a lot on the time period. Early on especially, it was the main portable that I'd be willing to actually take places, due to the string of bad laptops and issues I had for a while - there was a time or two where it was my only working machine. These days, I don't tend to use it very often, it seems to go through batteries faster than it used to, and it's also developed a screen issue where one horizontal line of pixels midway down the screen is burnt out.

An alternative to Excel is the shareware Spread32. It is compatible with the original Excel file format, and loads incredibly fast compared to Excel & LibreOffice. It is shareware, but you can use it for free without any time restriction. I use it even though I have Excel because I can open it, make a quick change and close it before Excel has even opened.