XLS - Microsoft Excel File Format (version 2.1)

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[Complete List of Books]

Beyond Spreadsheets: Tools for Building Decision Support Systems ( Hemant K. Bhargava, Suresh Sridhar, Craig Herrick ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-03)

Matrix Computations on Systolic-Type Meshes: An Introduction to the Multimesh Graph Method ( Jaime H. Moreno, Tomás Lang ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-04)

Are Spreadsheets Software or Data? [2002/02/21]

Free Linear Programming Software? [2001/12/28]

Questions and Answers

Numerical Python - Numerical Python adds a fast array facility to the Python language. {oss}

Oleo - is a spreadsheet program. It supports the X Window System and character-based terminals, and can output Embedded Postscript renditions of spreadsheets. {GPL,GNU}

Octave - does arithmetic for real and complex scalars and matrices, solves sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrates systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations, and integrates functions over finite and infinite intervals. {GPL,GNU}

wingzpro-311 - A Commercial Spreadsheet

slffea-1.25 - San Le's Free Finite Element Analysis

sc-6.21_1 - A curses-based spreadsheet program

pdnmesh-0.1.2 - A finite element program

p5-Text-FormatTable-0.01 - Renders simple tables as text

atlas-3.3.14 - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)

ja-gnumeric-1.0.6 - The GNOME spreadsheet

gnumeric-1.0.6 - The GNOME spreadsheet

zh-gnumeric-1.0.6 - The GNOME spreadsheet

vecfem-3 - Program to solve non-linear boundary value problems

xls2xml-1.0.0 - A utility for converting MS Excel files to XML

ja-gal-0.19.2 - A collection of widgets taken from GNOME gnumeric and evolution

mtrxmath-0.9.3 - A small tool for matrix mathemetics

p5-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2403 - Get information from Excel file

p5-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.35 - Write to a cross-platform Excel binary file

ss-1.3.3 - A curses-based SpreadSheet program

Wingz-142_1 - A Commercial Spreadsheet

slsc-0.2.3 - A enhanced slang-based version of the sc spreadsheet program

eispack-1.0 - Eigenvalue system package.

femlab-1.1 - Interactive program for solving partial differential equations in 2D

freefem-3.5.4 - A language for the Finite Element Method

umatrix-1.1 - Simple matrix package

umfpack-2.2.1 - Unsymmetric-pattern Multifrontal Package

felt-3.05 - A system for Finite Element Analysis

linpack-1.0 - Linear Algebra package.

teapot-1.04 - Full-screen curses based spread sheet program

oleo-1.99.16 - The GNU spreadsheet for X11 and terminals

siag-3.4.10 - Scheme-based "office" for X and curses. Sexy interface using Xaw3d

xspread-3.1.1c - A spreadsheet program for X and terminals

xbae-4.9.1 - A Motif-based widget which displays a grid of cells as a spreadsheet

runtime - Runtime memory allocation for multi-dimensional arrays {oss}

fft - General Fast Fourier Transform package {oss}

sc - Spread sheet program {oss}

abs - Full featured spreadsheet for X11 {x,GPL}

moodss - Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet {x,BSL}

Gnumeric - Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME {x,GPL}

GnuSheet - Free spreadsheet (LessTif/Xbae front end to GNU oleo) {x,GPL}

GNU Oleo - Free spreadsheet application {x,GPL}

NumExp - Numeric methods implementation for Linux {x,GPL}

KFourier - An image filtering application which uses the Fourier transform {x,GPL}

Microsoft Excel 2002

Lotus 123 Millennium Edition 9.5

Microsoft Excel X for Mac Upgrade

123 5.0

Formidea Excel 97/2000 2.2

AppleWorks 6.2 Office

123 Millennium Edition 9.5 Upgrade

Microsoft Excel 2002 Upgrade

Microsoft Excel X for Mac

Practically Real Excel 2000

Documents to Go Pro 4.0 Var Edition

Abacus - Spreadsheet for Linux/XWindows written in Tcl/Tk and C/C++ {x,free to use but restricted}

Xxl - Simple, easy to use and user friendly graphical spreadsheet {x,free to use but restricted}

Applications and Utilities

newmat-1.0 - A C++ matrix library

mtl-2.1.2.20 - The Matrix Template Library

libole2-0.2.4 - Support library for OLE functions (MS-Excel) for gnumeric

superlu-2.0_1 - A library of routines for performing sparse factorization

p5-Array-PrintCols-2.1 - Perl5 module to print arrays of elements in sorted columns

p5-MatrixReal-1.3a5 - A perl module implementing a Matrix of Reals

LK - Implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic {LGPL}

Matrona - C++ matrix algebra library {GPL}

FFTW - The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West {GPL}

ShowTable - Pretty-prints arrays, converting from columnar ASCII data. In the Array/ directory. Also see Array::PrintCols above. [Perl] {oss}

Math::Matrix - Matrix functions: multiply, invert, transpose, solve. Each matrix is an array of array references, as you'd expect: the middle element of a 2x2 array is $array[1][1]. [Perl] {oss}

Math::MatrixReal - Provides a slew of matrix operations optimized for real numbers. Simpler but less featureful than PDL. [Perl] {oss}

Math::VecStat - Basic numeric operations on vectors, e.g. min(), sum(), average(). [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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Numeric Data Visualization - Numeric Data Visualization. Graphing equations and other data.

For low level implementation of multi-dimensional arrays, see Memory blocks (Sometimes called "Byte Strings") - Memory blocks. Allocated, shared, mmaped, kernel et al

Up to Math - Gateway topic to math and numeric processing routines.

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