Author Archives: dougaj4

py_Numpy update and using Numba

Posted on 11/05/2023 by dougaj4

The py_Numpy spreadsheet presented at Calling Numpy polynomial functions from Excel has had a minor upgrade to the py_Polyfit function, which was previously returning an error message if the optional “full” argument was set to False. The new version can be … Continue reading →

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Two views on VBA

Posted on 28/04/2023 by dougaj4

First from Microsoft: Microsoft are continuing their quest to make downloading spreadsheets with macros ever more difficult, and now any downloaded spreadsheet has VBA code disabled by default. Unblocking the code (if you know and trust the source of the … Continue reading →

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Indexing pdf files – update

Posted on 18/04/2023 by dougaj4

My Windows search function recently once again stopped indexing pdf files, probably associated with an upgrade to Windows 11. Previously this was fixed by downloading the file PDFFilter64Setup.msi from the Adobe site, but that download no longer works, and there … Continue reading →

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More long numbers with Python

Posted on 08/04/2023 by dougaj4

In A not so easy problem I looked at using Python with Excel (via pyxll) to work with very long integers, using the MPMath package. For high precision calculations involving decimal values MPMath is required, but for simple operations entirely … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions – Python version

Posted on 02/04/2023 by dougaj4

I have now converted my ULS Design Functions spreadsheet (last presented here) to Python. The new spreadsheet and open source Python code can be downloaded from: py_ULS Design Functions The spreadsheet has the same functionality as the VBA version, providing … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments