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    The document analyzes the financial benefits of investing $399 in shares of Apple, IBM, or Microsoft in October 2001 rather than purchasing an iPod. A graph shows the increasing share values over time, and a table displays that investing in Apple would now be worth $17925.03, much more than the same investments in IBM or Microsoft. An appendix includes the MATLAB script used to generate the graph and table from stock price data.

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    Scientific Computing Assessed Task #1: Analysis

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    The document analyzes the financial benefits of investing $399 in shares of Apple, IBM, or Microsoft in October 2001 rather than purchasing an iPod. A graph shows the increasing share values over time, and a table displays that investing in Apple would now be worth $17925.03, much more than the same investments in IBM or Microsoft. An appendix includes the MATLAB script used to generate the graph and table from stock price data.

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    Scientific Computing Assessed Task #1

    Philip Colbran (pc501), Homerton College

    Analysis
    The graph (fig. 1) displays the share value for 3 different companies (Apple, IBM and Microsoft) had shares been invested in rather than buying an iPod in October 2001. As can be seen in the table below (fig. 2), investing in Apple would have been by far the most financially beneficial option.

    Figure 1 Graph displaying share value against time

    Figure 2: Table

    Company
    Apple IBM Microsoft

    Net share worth at present/$


    17925.03 714.78 514.56

    Appendix: MATLAB Script


    APPLE = dlmread('apple.csv',',',1,0); appleshareprice=APPLE(144,2); applesharenumber=(399/appleshareprice); x=APPLE(1:144,1); yA=(APPLE(1:144,2)*applesharenumber); plot(x,yA,'r') IBM = dlmread('ibm.csv',',',1,0); ibmshareprice=IBM(144,2); ibmsharenumber=(399/ibmshareprice); yI=(IBM(1:144,2)*ibmsharenumber); hold on plot(x,yI,'g') MICROSOFT = dlmread('microsoft.csv',',',1,0); microsoftshareprice=IBM(144,2); microsoftsharenumber=(399/microsoftshareprice); yM=(MICROSOFT(1:144,2)*microsoftsharenumber); plot(x,yM,'b') xlim([2001.6 2014]) legend('APPLE','IBM','MICROSOFT')

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