Category Archives: UDFs

Daily Download 17: Numerical Integration

Some simple numerical integration functions (using the trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s Rule) were included in the Eval2 spreadsheet, presented on Daily Download Day 15, but for purposes were better accuracy and/or higher speed are required more sophisticated methods will do a … Continue reading

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Daily Download 16: Intersections, interpolations, and rotations

There is only one download file today: http://interactiveds.com.au/software/IP2.ZIP , but it contains a wealth of different functions dealing with 2D and 3D geometry, including intersections of lines, circles and spheres, simple interpolation functions, and functions for rotating points in 2D … Continue reading

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Daily Download 15: Evaluation of formulas in text

VBA has an Evaluate function that returns the numerical value of any text string representing a mathematical formula, but this is not directly available from the spreadsheet.  Today’s download is a User Defined Function (UDF) to provide this functionality, together with examples … Continue reading

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Daily Download 14: Curve Fitting 1

Today’s download topic covers fitting a straight line or curve to scattered data, using the “least squares” method.  Fitting a spline curve to pass exactly through a series of points will be covered in a few days. Use of the … Continue reading

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Daily Download 13: The ALGLIB maths library and Excel

Today we move onto maths related downloads, starting with the ALGLIB maths library, which has featured here quite frequently: Original post with link to site: ALGLIB Installing AlgLib with Excel VBA Download files: http://interactiveds.com.au/software/AL-Matrix-xlsb.zip   http://interactiveds.com.au/software/AL-Matrix-xls.zip Linking AlgLib C++ to Excel … Continue reading

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