Re: Sarah Palin - hot or not?

On Sep 5, 10:02�am, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I have serious math to do, I write a program in PBCC, which has
excellent graphics, but is a serious programming language.



True enough, John.
But I do think if kicked the tires on Excel, you would see it does
indeed have tremendous utility.

Take any reasonably complicated modeling task, and I practically
guarantee Excel could get the job done in 10% of the time it would
take to code an alternative approach.

One thing I like (very much) is the ability in Excel to paste
sliderbars on the screen, set their upper & lower bounds, and
increment step size. Then tie this value to a cell - which is later
used in the equations you've set up in Excel.

You can have dozens of such sliderbars set up, each representing some
dependent or independent variable in your model, and move them around
to your heart's content.
You can even graph the results real-time. (Not to mention, you can
also tie your model to real-world, real-time data - such as production
line or testing output.)

Excel also have very powerful Solver applications.
Tell it what variables to consider, and what you want the target
results to be, and it will crunch the numbers for you.

Although Excel can do graphpaper, this is really not pushing the
envelope at all...
Seriously, grab a copy and give it a test drive.
I do think it would be well worth the effort.

-mpm
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