23 Oct
2011
23 Oct
'11
1:25 p.m.
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
There probably is a need for an 'engineer's
spreadsheet' with proper
complex number support, but I guess the market is much less than for
'business' applicatiosn which only need real numbers.
In many cases, "REAL" (actually "floating point") numbers are
inappropriate. For MONEY, I tried to get my students to use ints (and
calculate the pennies not the dollars), and then just move the PERIOD
when they display the results.