Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

I’ve started recreating many of my numerical model tutorials for introductory physics. In the beginning, I had students use spreadsheets to create models. Of course, spreadsheets aren’t very good for ...

We prove the curse of dimensionality for multivariate integration of Cr functions: The number of needed function values to achieve an error 𝜖 is larger than Cr(1 ...