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Originally Posted by Gary Dillard
Yeah, but......
In general, for ANY calculation task, Excel people will try to solve it in Excel, Matlab people will try to solve it in Matlab, regardless of whether the program was designed to do it or not. Using Goal Seek and Solver in Excel, I can do alot of iterative solutions that the general spreadsheet user doesn't do but the capability is there.
I've even seen people jump into Excel or Matlab to do a quick calculation, when the Windows Calculator accessory would to the trick just fine.
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Yeah. I suppose Matlab is more closley related to Excel then I intially thought. When I sad "very different tasks" I was wrong.