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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – June Tabor

Folk singer June Tabor is as far as I’m aware the first artist to record Eric Bogle’s The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. This is in my opinion the definitive version. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes but never … Continue reading →

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Using the VBA ParamArray keyword

The recently posted SolvePoly function makes use of the VBA ParamArray keyword, which allows an arbitrarily long list of arguments to be passed to another function.  I have not made great use of this in the past, but since the … Continue reading →

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Is Hinchliffe’s Rule True? …

… is the title of a paper by Boris Peon. Here is the abstract: Hinchliffe has asserted that whenever the title of a paper is a question with a yes/no answer, the answer is always no. This paper demonstrates that … Continue reading →

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Long Lost, a WW1 short film …

… and crowd-funded production, directed by my daughter: The story of the project At the start of 2014, sparked by the funding opportunity Raw Nerve (A Metroscreen and Screen Australia initiative) Kerinne Jenkins (director), Harry Windsor (writer) and Nic Douglas … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.2

The latest version (4.2) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. For more details of the background see: Faster Integration with the Tanh-Sinh Method and subsequent posts on this subject. In addition to … Continue reading →

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