Category Archives: NumPy and SciPy

A Numpy trap – correction

Posted on 20/07/2021 by dougaj4

In my post of 30th May this year (here) I said that: As a check that the functions were working correctly, the Python functions were modified to return the sum of the largest array in the first row, revealing that … Continue reading →

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster …

Posted on 27/06/2021 by dougaj4

… with Numba and Scipy sparse matrix functions. As promised in the previous post in this series, I will be looking at speeding up the formation and solving of matrix functions for the analysis of structural frames, using Excel and … Continue reading →

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Using Numba with Excel and pyxll …

Posted on 30/05/2021 by dougaj4

… and a Numpy trap. I last looked at using the just-in-time compiler Numba with Python some time ago (Two Timers), but I was prompted to take another look by an article in Medium that claimed Python Can Be Faster … Continue reading →

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Floating Point Precision Problems

Posted on 05/04/2021 by dougaj4

A question on Quora : prompted me to look at how these numbers are handled in Excel, in VBA called from Excel, and in Python called from Excel via pyxll. The results are shown in the screenshot below: Column A … Continue reading →

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Python callable arguments from Excel

Posted on 29/01/2021 by dougaj4

Many Scipy functions have “callable” arguments, i.e. functions that can be called, with the returned data used as input by the calling function. Types of callable arguments include: Functions in the active Python module Functions in any active loaded library … Continue reading →

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