Computer Science Fun with Excel

Posted by Daniel on Friday, 20 September 2013

There are a lot of pretty cool things one can do with Excel. Today I stumpled upon two of them at Hacker News:

First, Felienne has implemented a Turing Machine in Excel which basically means that one can process "every possible operation" in Excel, too.

The second one is a ENIGMA machine implemented in Ecxel as you may see in this video:

You can download the sheets on the respective pages.

Tags: 
Turing Machine
Excel
Computer Science
ENIGMA

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