Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excel. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Excel Errors and Other Numerical Nightmares

Although I use Excel all the time, and I strongly encourage my students to use it for performance analysis and CaP, I was forced to include a warranty disclaimer in my GCaP book because I discovered a serious numerical error while writing Appendix B. There, my intention was just to show that Excel gives essentially the same results as Mathematica when using the USL scalability model. It didn't!