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Preface
This book is for people in technical fields, students and
professionals alike. Its aim is to showthe usefulness of Microsoft"
Excel in solving a wide range of numerical problems. Excel does
pete with the major league symbolic mathematical
environments such as Mathematica, Mathcad, Maple, and the like.
Rather plements them. Excel is more readily available and
easier to learn.
The examples have been taken from a range of disciplines but
require no specialized knowledge, so the reader is invited to try
them all. Do notbe putoffby an exercise thatis notin your area of
interest. Each exercise is desig