• TheOakTree@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months 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.

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      9 months ago

      We have a single licence for matlab installed on an old laptop in the lab. I find it easier to program in Excel than try to reserve the laptop and go to the office (sometimes you reserve it and after arriving you find out that the last guy never returned it so you spend extra time trying to find where it is or who has it)