ExcelFormulaBot

This was only a matter of time, of course:

The formula in the pic above is one that I use to generate a simple Cobb Douglas production function (if you don’t know what this is, don’t worry) while teaching Excel, introductory micro, or both. Here is the file, if you’re interested.

But if you think this is doomsday writ large for programmers, please also watch this video (you should watch the whole video, but clicking on the phrase will take you to the “relevant” bit):

Hat-tip for the ExcelBot: Shashank Patil, former student and now a very good friend.

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