Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-09 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Mike I am keeping this as part of my growing library of such stuff. Incidentally my own problem with imitating spreadsheet behaviour has moved from financial functions (solved for now thanks to your help and some internet searches) to the problem of simulating recursive evaluation in a g

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-09 Thread Mike Bonner
found my other stack, heres the script from it. (got the script from somewhere else and adjusted for lc) */ * //-- * *// COMPOUND INTEREST* *// present value, future value, imputed compound interest rate

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-08 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Nov 5, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > You know I did search the dictionary, but never thought of something so > obvious as 'annuity' or 'compound'. Well, you learn something new every day > (at least I do). I have been known to browse through the dictionary from time to time. That

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-05 Thread Graham Samuel
timates outboard boat speed based on prop pitch and gear >>> ratio. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:05 AM, wrote: >>> >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>> >>>> Just enter 42 in all required fields. >>>> >>>> >&g

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> >>> Just enter 42 in all required fields. >>> >>> >>> Craig Newman >>> >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Graham Samuel >>> To: use-livecode >

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
Hi. >> >> >> Just enter 42 in all required fields. >> >> >> Craig Newman >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Graham Samuel >> To: use-livecode >> Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 10:44 am >> Subject: Financial f

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:05 AM, wrote: > Hi. > > > Just enter 42 in all required fields. > > > Craig Newman > > > > -Original Message- > From: Graham Samuel > To: use-livecode > Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 10:44 am > Subject: Financial formulae > >

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Just enter 42 in all required fields. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Graham Samuel To: use-livecode Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 10:44 am Subject: Financial formulae Here at the unfashionable end of the galaxy, I find I have to code some financial formulae, for example for

Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Graham Samuel
Here at the unfashionable end of the galaxy, I find I have to code some financial formulae, for example for amortization (PMT and IPMT) and very probably other stuff of this kind - stuff which is available in Excel at the drop of a mouse but not AFAIK in any LC library. Of course it is just