Category Archives: Newton

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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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 5.03

Posted on 22/11/2021 by dougaj4

Following some recent comments Graeme Dennes has released the latest version the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet with some corrections to the test function documentation. The new file is located (as before) at: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature For more information on the last major release … Continue reading →

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… is so meta, even this acronym …

Posted on 29/10/2021 by dougaj4

Today it was announced that Facebook, the meta company that owns Facebook, was going to be renamed “Meta”, which reminded me of an xkcd episode from 10 years ago:

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Installing PyPardiso

Posted on 24/10/2021 by dougaj4

Update 5th June 2022: The PyPardiso package may now be installed simply with pip (see Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve): Install the MKL library: pip install mkl Install PyPardiso: pip install pypardiso The PyPardiso package provides an interface to … Continue reading →

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster – Update and PyPardiso

Posted on 17/10/2021 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic looked at the performance of alternative Scipy sparse equation solvers. This post updates those results with the current Scipy version (1.7.1), with very different results. It also compares the Scipy solver performance with the … Continue reading →

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