# LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function - Microsoft Research

<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Deeper dive into LAMBDA in Excel.

> Moreover, LAMBDA is the true lambda that we know and love: a lambda can be an argument to another lambda or its result; you can define the Church numerals; lambdas can return lambdas, so you can do currying; you can define a fixed-point combinator using LAMBDA and hence write recursive functions; and so on. 

Yes, but should you? 😵

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