The tutor promotes his equal-opportunity point of view towards computing. I use Microsoft’s programs: witness my post from Sept 28 about using Excel to calculate IRR. However, some of my computers aren’t Windows; rather, they’re Linux. I don’t have a …

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The tutor finally brings up the elephant in the room. I’ve been writing this blog since August 2012; herein are over 500 articles confronting problems, methods, or ideas that might occur in an academic milieu. Numerous of them centre on …

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The tutor brings up what he finds a fascinating concept: internal rate of return. The way I understand it, the internal rate of return is the interest rate that would make possible an exact sequence of deposits and withdrawals, with …

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