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(2) : Inspiration: Kevan Davis has set up an online game that I inspired.

John Donaldson is the awesome prof who gave us a lecture on Black-Scholes option price modeling. Incidentally, despite what some may tell you, neither Excel nor Gnumeric nor OpenOffice nor Google Spreadsheets have built-in functions for pricing call options using Black-Scholes. Bah! How are we supposed to figure out whether Google's corporate governance is failing?


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Posted by Jody Goldberg at 17 Dec 2006, 02:18AM

Gnumeric has black-scholes and several more exotic pricers as part of it's standard package.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/gnumeric-OPT_BS.shtml

Posted by Sumana Harihareswara at 17 Dec 2006, 12:38PM

Hmm! Maybe I was using an outdated version of Gnumeric on my husband's computer. I'll have to check.



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