Category Archives: UDFs

Interactive File List

Microsoft recently introduced the facility to embed a link to a live spreadsheet stored on Windows Skydrive. This is my first attempt to use this facility.  The spreadsheet below is a list of all the files published on this blog, together … Continue reading

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Faster Integration with the Tanh-Sinh Method

In my previous post about numerical integration I mentioned that I would be writing about another lesser known method providing better speed and/or accuracy in many cases.  The method is known as Tanh-Sinh quadrature, and has been implemented in Excel by a reader … Continue reading

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Working with FEM data and using the dictionary object

This post features an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to count the number of different element types (beams, plates, bricks and links) and the number of node restraints at each end of listed beams from a finite element model.  The … Continue reading

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PyXLL Links

This is really just a bookmark for me and anyone else who may be interested. “PyXLL is an Excel addin that enables functions written in Python to be called in Excel.” That’s all I know, but it looks interesting, and … Continue reading

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Complex Numbers and Solving Quartic Polynomial Equations

It was recently pointed out to me that the User Defined Function (UDF) for solving quartic polynomial equations presented in this post returned an error for some input values.  In tracking down the source of the error I decided that it … Continue reading

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