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Re:History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987) by chalst on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:07AM (#4531758)
Quantrix is used a great deal in finance, and I have the impression that it is used more than Excel by people who need to have confidence that their financial models are correct.
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Re:History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987) by pinaceae on Monday September 17, 2012 @08:18AM (#4532162)
I wasn't precise enough, I meant financial departments within companies of all areas. Finance as in banking of course has its special tools - but I would be surprised if Excel is not used for anything quick and dirty.

MS Excel is not precise enough in a lot of areas, you can't compare it to something like SPSS for statistics for example - but it's good enough.

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