Category Archives: Maths

A not so easy problem

Posted on 12/03/2023 by dougaj4

A seemingly simple problem was posted in my Quora feed: or to put it more mathematically, what three positive integers satisfy the equation: It turns out the answer is not so simple. A full and detailed derivation can be found … Continue reading →

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Latex Maths Text in Excel

Posted on 27/11/2022 by dougaj4

There have been many posts here looking at alternative ways of working with functions entered as text on a spreadsheet, and working with units, most recently here. One drawback with this approach is that text in an Excel cell must … Continue reading →

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Calling Numpy polynomial functions from Excel

Posted on 31/10/2022 by dougaj4

The Numpy polynomial related function discussed in recent posts can now be downloaded from: py_Numpy.zip The download file includes Python code and a sample spreadsheet. Required installed software is Python, Numba and pyxll to call the code from Excel. Some … Continue reading →

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Solving cubic equations – background and timing

Posted on 25/10/2022 by dougaj4

For more information on the polynomial functions, including quartic and higher order solvers, see: Solving Quadratic, Cubic, Quartic and higher order equations; examples Re-reading the Wikipedia article on solving cubic equations, I noticed that the trigonometrical solution for finding 3 real … Continue reading →

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Installing Python and pyxll from scratch

Posted on 26/09/2022 by dougaj4

Updated 28th September 2022. Matplotlib latest version OK. I recently installed Python and pyxll (plus the required additional libraries) on a new computer, which raised a few problems with incompatible versions, so here is a summary of what worked (as … Continue reading →

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