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despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage. (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Call me crazy, but the admittance matrix hw (Gaussian, G-S, Newton, N-R, etc.) I did last semester was much more intuitive for me on MATLAB than on Excel... but I'm gonna get screwed for that because a vast majority of companies would never bother to pay for MATLAB (+ Toolboxes) licenses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There is always Octave.
And I am not claiming that Excel is better than Matlab. There are lots of tasks where Matlab is better, or where it is not even possible to use Excel with any efficiency. And yet, Excel IS a powerful tool for scientists and engineers. Not just for accountants.