Category Archives: Arrays

SplineBeam update

Previous SplineBeam post I have modified the SplineBeam spreadsheet to allow input of a single span (simply supported or with end constraints), and to optionally allow input of the position of intermediate nodes, rather than dividing each span into equal segment lengths.  This … Continue reading

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Compiled AlgLib Matrix Functions for Excel

This post describes a series of matrix functions compiled from the AlgLib library code (covered in previous posts) as a dll that can be called from Excel VBA, and used as User Defined Functions (UDFs).  A spreadsheet containing the necessary VBA … Continue reading

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Installing AlgLib with Excel VBA

In a previous post I linked to the AlgLib site which has an extensive range of mathematical routines available in VBA, c/c++ and pascal.  I have recently been experimenting with these (in reponse to a thread at the Eng-Tips forum), and will … Continue reading

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Calling a function as a variable

The functions described in recent posts provide iterative solutions to polynomial equations, but the same method can be used for any equations that can be evaluated numerically and have a single variable.  The question then is, how can we call a … Continue reading

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Some VBA maths resources

In the past week I have discovered a couple of  sites with open source maths related VBA code that I was previously unaware of, and which deserve to be better known: AlgLib: “ALGLIB is a cross-platform numerical analysis and data processing library. … Continue reading

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