Tag Archives: Excel

Elegant Solutions – completing the square

Posted on 08/01/2011 by dougaj4

When I was at school (many years ago), if I recall correctly, we were told of the “completing the square” method of solving quadratic equations, but I never really appreciated the elegance of this method because it was treated as … Continue reading →

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Buckling of rings and arches

Posted on 01/01/2011 by dougaj4

In 2007 I wrote a paper on buckling of confined steel tunnel liners for the ANZ Geomechanics Conference in Brisbane, and in the course of that I noticed that the calculated buckling load of an unconstrained pipe subject to uniform radial load was significantly … Continue reading →

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Charting a Mathematical Function with Defined Names

Posted on 15/12/2010 by dougaj4

This post is a compilation of information from Stephen Bullen, Jan Karel Pieterse, and George Lungu.  To quote JKP “When doing mathematics, wouldn’t it be nice if we could type an equation into a cell in Excel and immediately see … Continue reading →

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More on the Excel Evaluate function

Posted on 14/12/2010 by dougaj4

Previous posts have presented the Eval() User Defined Function, using the Evaluate function in VBA to evaluate mathematical functions displayed as text (Evaluate Function, Evaluate Function – Update).  It was recently pointed out by Jeff Weir that the Evaluate function has its origins … Continue reading →

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Interpolation Update

Posted on 07/12/2010 by dougaj4

The interpolation functions in IP2.xls have been given an overhaul: The linear and quadratic interpolations routines have been modified to accept negative values. All the routines have been modified to convert the table range to an array, rather than using a … Continue reading →

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