Author Archives: dougaj4

Extracting text from an Internet table

For use in my Units spreadsheet (Units4Excel) I want to extract the unit conversion values from the comprehensive Wikipedia unit conversion table. On Wikipedia the table looks like this: and when copied and pasted as Unicode text into Excel, like … Continue reading

Posted in Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Tanh-Sinh Quadrature update

Following some comments here Graeme Dennes and I have modified the start-up code for the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to avoid problems opening the file when first downloaded, or copied to a new computer. The new file is located (as before) … Continue reading

Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Four Forgotten Female Folkies

Barbara Dane In her speech to the GI Movement of the Vietnam War Era (whose text can be found in the booklet that’s included in Paredon Records’ FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance vinyl album of 1970), Barbara Dane said, “I was too stubborn … Continue reading

Posted in Bach | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Newton-Raphson and Brent’s Method – Solver examples

I recently discovered the Computing Skillset site (via open-struct-engineer), which has good information on the basis and use of the Newton-Raphson method: The Newton Raphson method explained, details, pictures, python code Highly instructive examples for the Newton Raphson method I … Continue reading

Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Numerical Integration With Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v 5.0

Graeme Dennes has updated his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to V 5.0. The new version (including full open source code) may be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Graeme’s summary of the new features in the spreadsheet: The Tanh-Sinh quadrature workbook has been … Continue reading

Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , | 13 Comments