Category Archives: Newton

Listing Python modules and getting help docs from Excel

Posted on 12/05/2022 by dougaj4

Python functions include detailed help documentation but to access this you need the full path to the function, including the names of all code modules and submodules. This post looks at how this information can be found using Excel with … Continue reading →

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Pint, MPmath and implied units, working with Excel

Posted on 30/04/2022 by dougaj4

Spreadsheets linking to the Python Pint and MPmath libraries have been presented here before at: Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy mpmath for Excel I have now updated the spreadsheet to work with pyxll, and with some new functions and … Continue reading →

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3D Matplotlib Plots in Excel

Posted on 17/04/2022 by dougaj4

As well as Excel, the code shown in this post requires current versions of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, and pyxll. The required import statements at the head of the Python code are: The spreadsheets and Python code described below may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Drawing, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Free and Simple Tools for Editing Videos

Posted on 08/04/2022 by dougaj4

I recently needed to extract 15 minutes from a 45 minute long video, in 5 separate clips. I discovered that there are free tools to do this simply and efficiently, although they are not widely advertised. Here’s how: By default, … Continue reading →

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VBA procedures for the Numerical Analysis of Tabular Functions

Posted on 12/03/2022 by dougaj4

Long time on-line friend Alfred Vachris has recently been converting Fortran code developed through his working career into VBA: I had the opportunity to work at Grumman while going to Graduate School and they gave me a part-time job as … Continue reading →

Posted in Coordinate Geometry, Curve fitting, Excel, Fortran, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment