"Gordon Arnaut" wrote...
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Microsoft needs to do a better job with this product.
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To be fair, spreadsheets are meant for financial calculations. They're
misused for general and especially scientific/engineering calculations.

If you believe you need to use a spreadsheet for scientific/engineering
calculations, you'd be well served to try out the Windows port of Gnumeric.
It's mathematical functions are much better implemented than Excel's in no
small part because they make use of code from the R Project and NetLib,
freely available code that Microsoft mey feel compelled to avoid due to
licensing terms they can't abide.