Category Archives: Maths

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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SectionProperties update 3

Posted on 09/02/2022 by dougaj4

The SectionProperties spreadsheets previously posted had limited graphics capabilities due to problems with the plotting routines causing Excel to crash. I have now fixed that problem by updating some Python libraries with pip: installing mkl-service numpy 1.21.2 -> 1.22.1 Pillow … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Charts, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Plotting Mandelbrot in Excel with Matplotlib

Posted on 17/12/2021 by dougaj4

The functions used in the previous post generate an array of integers, the number of iterations for the function return value to exceed 2. This post looks in more detail at how this data can be plotted in Excel using … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Charts, Drawing, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Computing and plotting the Mandelbrot set in Excel …

Posted on 07/12/2021 by dougaj4

… with Python, Numba and pyxll. As promised in the previous post, this post will look at alternative procedures for calculating and plotting the Mandelbrot set with Python based code. The spreadsheet presented here and the associated Python code may … Continue reading →

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Animations from VBA

Posted on 28/11/2021 by dougaj4

A convenient way to create an animation in Excel is to create on-sheet formulas or user defined functions to generate the required data, then use VBA to iterate through the range of input values so that the chart or image … Continue reading →

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