Gregory's Server@ethanjstark @NanoRaptor You wouldn't believe the things I have seen people use Excel for
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  @NanoRaptor @quantensalat @ethanjstark I've seen powerpoint used for PCB design and excel used for power network breaker fault simulation with live scada. People have no bounds in their creativity. @xssfox @NanoRaptor @quantensalat @ethanjstark I've used Word as an image editor before, as another example. @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor I once had to debug an application that kept crashing, which timed industrial automation processes (concretely, robots in car factories) in real time in situ using VBA excel. After a week of pulling my hair out over reams of weird vba code it turned out the windows system at the factory site had simply become slow from being windows.  @quantensalat @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor my advisor had a nightmarish Excel spreadsheet of unknown provenance that he loved to show off to prospective students (and *only* them??) that…acted as a magnetostatic field solver Some number of cells (maybe it was flexible and you could configure the bounds?) represented the computational domain, and you populated the cells, one symbol for non-linearities (iron) and another for current sources/sinks then click "step" a bunch of times until it converged |
@quantensalat @ethanjstark Working in print, I have seen a book written in Excel, one page per sheet.
Apart from the pain in getting it out to a nicely printable form, excel PDF output is *really* nice.