This is correct. EXCEL is not very user freindly for what we do, but it was what we had 20+ yrs ago. I think I started using Mathcad v4 around 1988 at a different company, and we converted (from EXCEL/LOTUS) to Mathcad 6 where I am at now in the ealry 90's ... and loved it since (but not PRIME). Mathcad up through v15 was/is a powerful tool for how we perform and present engineering analyses (structural, chemical, nuclear, etc). We use Mathcad to publish these calcs internally, makes it easy for techincal review, archiving and retreiving the analyses, passing on calcs to the next generation of engineers taking over, and presenting summaries without having to interface with too many software (we would not use Mathcad to publish documents going external).
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