Category Archives: UDFs

3D Matplotlib Plots in Excel

Posted on 17/04/2022 by dougaj4

As well as Excel, the code shown in this post requires current versions of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, and pyxll. The required import statements at the head of the Python code are: The spreadsheets and Python code described below may be … Continue reading →

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Python functools – cache and lru_cache

Posted on 01/04/2022 by dougaj4

Update 3rd April 2022: Following the comment from Larry Schuster I have modified the code so that the factorial0 function actually uses cache as intended, rather than lru_cache. I also added code to clear the cache after each timer run, … Continue reading →

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VBA procedures for the Numerical Analysis of Tabular Functions

Posted on 12/03/2022 by dougaj4

Long time on-line friend Alfred Vachris has recently been converting Fortran code developed through his working career into VBA: I had the opportunity to work at Grumman while going to Graduate School and they gave me a part-time job as … Continue reading →

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Display Matplotlib animations in Excel

Posted on 28/02/2022 by dougaj4

The latest version of pyxll (5.4.0) allows animations generated in Matplotlib to be simply copied to Excel. A spreadsheet with the examples shown below, and the associated Python code can be downloaded from: Animations2.zip The screenshot below shows the simple … Continue reading →

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Rounding to significant figures

Posted on 17/02/2022 by dougaj4

Edited 19th Feb 22, following comment from Larry Schuster Excel does not have a function to round numbers to a specified number of significant numbers, and (rather to my surprise) neither does Python. It is not too hard to write … Continue reading →

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