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I find Joel’s post on Excel bug interesting enough to make a connection to Mathcad’s number inaccuracy about which I ranted earlier. What I didn’t mention in that previous post was that I used a lot of floating point values in my matrix.

Mathcad may well be curtailing the floating point earlier—than Matlab or Excel—just to give it a benefit of doubt, and hence the numerical difference.¹ It also implies that these math applications have not really scaled-up to utilize all the computing power that today’s computers offer.

1. But as a user, I would never really know the reason, with the exception of seeing the discrepancy in comparison. [←]

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