Solver for OpenOffice Cal

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On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> OpenOffice Calc does not apparently have a tool similar
> to MS Excel's solver. The solver of Gnumeric is limited
> only to Linear Programming problems; it is not able to
> deal with non-linear problems. Is there some tool for
> Linux to replace MS Excel's solver? Or has one to boot in
> MS Windows to solve non-linear optimization problems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul

Have you looked at any of the science and engineering apps 
that come with Fedora.