Author Archives: dougaj4

Double Bass

Posted on 08/08/2018 by dougaj4

Reading the comments on a Davey Graham YouTube video: I discovered that the bass player on the track was Danny Thompson, and checking the other artists playing on the album, “Large and Life and Twice as Natural”, I found they … Continue reading →

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VBA vs Power Query vs Python

Posted on 04/08/2018 by dougaj4

A recent post at Chandoo’s Excel Forum asked for a formula to extract all pairs of digits from a number with 4 digits.  This was soon extended to dealing with longer numbers, and the examples looked at here will work with … Continue reading →

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Cattle at the Melbourne International Film Festival

Posted on 02/08/2018 by dougaj4

The Melbourne International Film Festival, started in 1952, is one of the oldest film festivals in the World. The Accelerator Program is a collection of short films by emerging filmmakers from Australia and New Zealand, which this year features a … Continue reading →

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Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy

Posted on 29/07/2018 by dougaj4

Following the previous post I have adapted the units code to use the Pint package, and added a function using the Sympy equation solver, with Pint units.  I have applied the functions to finding the depth of neutral axis of a … Continue reading →

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Working with units in Excel – using VBA and Python

Posted on 15/07/2018 by dougaj4

One of the most frequent reasons given for not using Excel for engineering and scientific applications is its very limited  facilities for dealing with calculations involving units.  It is possible to overcome this deficiency with VBA (see  Daily Download 24: … Continue reading →

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