Re: [tlug] [OT] Japan and 海外 credit cards

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> Edward Middleton wrote:
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>> Thats interesting/scary, I aways imagined quants would use mathematic, matlab or something else more serious then Excel extensions.
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> Well, my impression is that quants do a lot more numerical stuff than they do symbolic algebra and the like, and Excel is more suited to this.
>   
Matlab is great for numerical modeling, it does have some symbolic
algebra functionality.

> I can't really imagine how Matlab would deal with a real-time Reuters market data feed....
>   

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=matlab+realtime+data+finance&l=1

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