Limit on Number of Characters in a Cell

All - I'm new to the iWork suite. Anyway, in MS Excel, there is a limit to the number characters a cell can hold. Something like 256 I think. While you can add more than that to a cell, the text that exceeds the 256 limit will be lost if you try to copy/move the cell. Is there a limit like this in the Numbers 09 application? If so, does anyone know what it is?

Not a guaranteed responce.
I pasted a long text (an applescript) in a single cell.
It was truncated .
The cell contain : 1698 characters, 1393 if we don't count spaces chars.
With an other text, the final contents was 2110 characters, 1806 if we don't count spaces chars.
In the index.xml file, the text is stored in a complicated way : there is one descriptor for each 'word'.
This may explain the reported difference.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 15 février 2010 09:14:56

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