can excel do calculus (differential, integral)?

[novice_2010]

Hello,
can excel do calculus (differential, integral)? or I have to write my own codes?

 

[shg]

You can apply numerical methods in Excel to do those things, but Excel does not do symbologic algebra like Mathematica, Maple, ...

 

[novice_2010]

Thank you very much. I do not need symbolic algebra.

Do you know any source where I can found Excel calculus functions that had been demonstrated robust and reliable?

 

[shg]

I have never seen a library of such functions, but have seen and created examples applied to specific problems. What are you trying to do?

 

[novice_2010]

suppose I have variables Y and X, Y is dependable variable of X (i.e., Y=f(X)).
I want to find the slope at some X points.

 

[shg]

Calculate f(x-∆x) and f(x+∆x) and for some sufficiently small ∆x and compute the slope as rise/run.