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I've got no idea what I could use it for, but I do like it. It looks like Pascal's triangle [1], so I'm sure some computations will roll out naturally, provided the formulas have relative addressing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_triangle, which even shows a hexagonal grid!

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I can see it being useful for exactly that sort of thing. I've approximated hexagonal grids in spreadsheets by making each cell a square and then merging adjacent squares, alternating by row:

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Useful for working on puzzles like https://puzzles.mit.edu/2021/puzzle/triangles/

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