From: serialhex <serialhex@...>
Date: 2011-04-04T05:34:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Why should I be a programmer, to program?

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@Josh
  ruby == magic
  therefore:
  ruby-talk magically knows where your posts are supposed to be :P
hex



On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
>
> > Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #990664:
> >
> > > Anecdote:
> > > My EE prof used Excel to invert a matrix. Took about 30 minutes, and
> > > was far from obvious (I forgot how it was done, since it was
> > > definitely something Excel wasn't designed to do), when a specialized
> > > tool (Maple in this case), did the same job in one line of code,
> > > following the mathematical notation (M_inverse := M^-1).
> >
> > Would that remark still apply if Excel had - let's say - a function
> > MINVERSE() - a similar single line of code?
> >
> > Well, interestingly, I do believe it does.
> >
> > Have a look at eg
> > http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~tbco/cm3450/Excel_Array_Formulas.pdf
> >
> > I suspect people don't realise what power Excel has, because hardly
> > anyone talks about it. They either talk about everyday corporate number
> > crunching or conventional programming lnaguages. Few people think about
> > taking Excel's components and mixing them together to solve
> > simultanaeous linear equations.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> >
>
> Hmm, when you post, it fragments into a new thread in my gmail. I assume
> because you change the subject. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it (
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=63a2a74c9f70e02d)
> but
> doesn't look like it will happen any time soon. Meanwhile, I'd be
> appreciative if you could just make the new subject be "Re:
> #{original_subject}"
>
> (musing: I wonder how ruby-forum knows they are part of the same thread.)
>

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