Category Archives: Newton

High definition Mandelbrot

There have been several posts here about generating animations of the Mandelbrot set, most recently at Display Matplotlib animations in Excel, but using standard 64 bit floats you rapidly run out of precision. However, using arbitrary precision arithmetic, and with sufficient … Continue reading

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py_RC Elastic update 2

Following the previous post, I have added a further new function, and in the process discovered that the py_Estress function was not handling tensile axial loads correctly. That has now been fixed, and the updated spreadsheet and Python files can … Continue reading

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py_RC Elastic update

Following the previous post I have updated the py_RC Elastic spreadsheet and code to work with the new solver function, and also add new functionality. The updated files can be downloaded from: py_RC Elastic.zip For details of the pyxll app … Continue reading

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Scipy solver update

The py_SolveFS function calls the Scipy optimize.root function to solve multi-variable equations. Examples are found on the py_Solvers spreadsheet, see Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 4 – Solvers 2. One problem with using this function is that the input data … Continue reading

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Pale Blue Dot

34 years ago Carl Sagan presented an image of the Earth taken from outer space, known as the pale blue dot. An event very different from a 13 year old boy singing a song he had written himself, but the … Continue reading

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