Category Archives: Maths

Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 2 – Interpolation

Posted on 13/12/2023 by dougaj4

Following the previous post I will now look in more detail at the functions in the py_Interpolate spreadsheet included in the download file: py_SciPy.zip Details of the required pyxll package (including download, free trial, and full documentation) can be found … Continue reading →

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Scipy functions with Excel and pyxll

Posted on 10/12/2023 by dougaj4

Over the years, I have posted a large number of user defined functions (UDF’s) allowing Python Scipy functions (and related libraries) to be accessed from Excel. These have now been consolidated in a uniform format, using the pyxll add-in and … Continue reading →

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Calculating and plotting rotations

Posted on 19/06/2023 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a recent post at Eng-Tips. The original problem seemed simple enough: Im trying to wirte a formula where I imput vessel heading and datum bore heading and it tells me FWD, STBD, AFT or PORT … Continue reading →

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Scipy linear algebra functions in Excel

Posted on 30/05/2023 by dougaj4

The file pyLinAlgfuncs3.zip has open source Python code allowing the Scipy linear algebra functions to be called from Excel using the pyxll add-in. It also includes all the Python code to perform LU decomposition, as discussed in the previous post., … Continue reading →

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LU Decomposition with Python and Scipy

Posted on 26/05/2023 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a question at the Eng-Tips forum: LU Decomposition which asked why Mathcad was generating LU matrices different to those calculated from the basic theory. The short answer was that there is more than one way … Continue reading →

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