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> I wouldn't pull Excel from the dead hands of physicists Accountants I understand but physicists? I'd have thought they mostly use Matlab or maybe Mathematica
by ginko 5y ago
> I wouldn't pull Excel from the dead hands of physicists
Accountants I understand but physicists? I'd have thought they mostly use Matlab or maybe Mathematica.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat too, but many aren't firm with such tools and Excel is very prominently used. They often employ special software (I mostly worked with them on optical systems) that use Excel as a common output format for visualization. Don't know the name of their simulators.
- ahartmetz 5y agoAnd / or Jupyter Notebook
- valenaut 5y agoMy physics undergrad had about equal parts Mathematica (for theoretical subjects), MATLAB (for engineering crossover), Python (for CS), and Excel (for labs).