• MxM111@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 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)

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        10 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)

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        10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        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