3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by samfisher83 » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae
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Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by foxX » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:21 PM UTC

God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by iamdave » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:26 PM UTC

foxX wrote: post #2

God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.

or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers

Payroll analysts

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by billrobertson42 » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

Excel w/o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

billrobertson42 wrote: post #4

Excel w/o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.

I'd go with 'functional reactive masochism'.

(I was surprised to find 0 results on Google for this term.)

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

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Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by slacka » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

This reminds me of the 3D roller coaster simulator in Excel[1]. The difference here is this was made for readability in mind and even works without macros.

[1] http://www.excelunusual.com/coaster/

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by tomrod » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 7:06 PM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #3

foxX wrote: post #2

God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.

or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers Payroll analysts

Economists and data scientists.

/waves

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by bazooka2th » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 7:06 PM UTC

"Ok, we're definitively in hell" - C Bel, 2018. This is amazing, computation in Excel is becoming a solid meme.

I've got to ask (and I hope this isn't non-PC or some such), but is English the author's first language? Where's he from?

I wish that I had Excel so that I could try it out! :) More about the choice of random digits, sin x + cos x, would be nice to read.

Re: 3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae

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Post by mesozoic » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

Someone was reaaaallly really bored at work.