Once upon a time, the dominant spreadsheet was Lotus 1-2-3. These days it's Microsoft Excel. While Excel has added on a whole load of things that were not in 1-2-3, the essential way of working remains much the same: you enter numbers into a matrix and do calculations with formulas placed into cells. Resolver One does things differently. It treats a spreadsheet as a fully programmable tool. You can control it using the Python language. And while it allows you to enter formulas into cells, (...)
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