Solver for OpenOffice Cal

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 2/20/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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?

"Goal Seek" in OO.o 2.1 seems to handle non-linear equations ... or
are you referring to some other "solver"? In the version of MSOffice
that I have, it is called "Goal Seek" there too so that might not be
what you are looking for.

/Mike