Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 13 - Exercises - Page 665: 1

Answer

Yes

Work Step by Step

2-dimensional spreadsheets such as Microsoft excel should definitely be considered a computational model. The textbook defines computational models in the opening of the chapter as a representation of the physical system being studied, modelled via a set of mathematical equations and algorithmic procedures capturing the fundamental properties of a system. This is true for 2-dimensional spreadsheets such as Excel, in which the physical system is represented by a spreadsheet onto which the user may write mathematical equations or algorithmic procedures to deal with the inputted data.
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