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From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Scientific Graphing Program
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.021952.9176@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 02:19:52 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.131836.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsjcb1@acad3.alaska.edu (Curt Beavers) writes:
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>    I'm looking for a scientific graphing program for IBM compatibles running
>Dos and I have yet to find a satisfactory one.  For those familiar with

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>column A and put it in column B, divide A by B and put it in C, etc).  I'd li,e
>to be able to produce scatter point graphs and edit them inside the program
>(adding and moving labels, resizing fonts if possible, maybe even primitive
>drawing tools?).  Also, and most importantly, I'd like to be able to fit
>equations to the data and have the program find the constants (zero points,
>slope, exponential decay constant, period for repeating functions).  Then,
>displaying the resulting equation over the data would be nice.

I assume you know that the latest generation of spreadsheets (123 v.3, 
Quattro Pro) are adept at most of this except for the last set of 
requirements.  A nonlinear curve fitting program was described in 
the issue of Science that came out today that sounds great for that
last set.

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