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Book:		Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook
Subject:		Wow! Just what was needed
Date:		2006-01-24 18:06:32
From:		dtsitrelis

Rating: A treasure trove of numerical methods for spreadsheets. While using Excel in this way won't replace a more general-purpose mathematical package like Mathematica, Maple, etc. it leverages spreadsheet applications to provide widely available solutions. I especially liked that the authors included a little theory when explaining each technique and that they provide such a fair use policy of the included code.

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"Scientists and engineers will find this book an excellent guide to the problem-solving and information-visualization capabilities of Excel."
--Charlene Brown, Big Blue & Cousins (BB&C)

Wow! Just what was needed, March 23 2006
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I discovered the title while I was taking a break at work and came to oreilly.com looking for an Excel book.

I d/l chapter 9, Solving Equations and then I d/l the excel files and all-in-all, I was astonished at the quality of information I was looking at... immediately ordered the book.

Am now considering buying Bourg's other book, "Physics for Game Developers," simply for the reason that the chapter I d/l on at the book link was a chapter concerning projectile motion which was cool, but as I was looking through that chapter, I about fell off my chair when I saw his comments concerning the Reynolds Number ... to me, this was too amazing since I use this value every day at work!