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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Excel is a powerful tool. I was solving system of differential equations with Newton method in it. Sometimes it is easier than in Matlab (or Mathematica) if all you have is good understanding of how step-wise equations should look like, but not the differential equations themselves. Those steps may include if statements, for example.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

Had to do a similar project and it took me three full days of back and forth with another software before I found out EXCEL rounds small numbers in very weird ways.

Also, in EXCEL functions/formulas and data/values are wildly mixed.

(Not mentioning a plethora of other mildly infuriating quirks here)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What does it do that LibreOffice Calc doesn't do?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Smooth scrolling.

Kind of serious, the lack of smooth scrolling makes Calc really horrible to use on a touchpad or with large/differing sized cells (formatted sheets with headers and such)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Almost nothing, considering Calc is a clone. I don't think people are excluding LibreOffice from the list of smooth brain apps.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not lagging horribly with big tables after calculating a simple formula? That's the only thing i can think of. Everything else is just very similar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh but excel does lag heavily with any table over a couple megabytes, of course that's only on my computer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You probably have apple stuff or Intel or windows /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Does libre office do pivot charts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Matlab excels at dgls, Excel does math not. Newton method isn't it