Tag Archives: Excel

Calculating and plotting rotations

Posted on 19/06/2023 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a recent post at Eng-Tips. The original problem seemed simple enough: Im trying to wirte a formula where I imput vessel heading and datum bore heading and it tells me FWD, STBD, AFT or PORT … Continue reading →

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Speed of Scipy Linear Algebra Solvers

Posted on 14/06/2023 by dougaj4

The files presented in the recent post on Scipy Linear Algebra Solvers include a wide range of different solver types, with in some cases numerous sub-options, allowing the functions to be called from Excel, and greatly extending and speeding up … Continue reading →

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Scipy linear algebra functions in Excel

Posted on 30/05/2023 by dougaj4

The file pyLinAlgfuncs3.zip has open source Python code allowing the Scipy linear algebra functions to be called from Excel using the pyxll add-in. It also includes all the Python code to perform LU decomposition, as discussed in the previous post., … Continue reading →

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LU Decomposition with Python and Scipy

Posted on 26/05/2023 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a question at the Eng-Tips forum: LU Decomposition which asked why Mathcad was generating LU matrices different to those calculated from the basic theory. The short answer was that there is more than one way … Continue reading →

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py_Numpy update and using Numba

Posted on 11/05/2023 by dougaj4

The py_Numpy spreadsheet presented at Calling Numpy polynomial functions from Excel has had a minor upgrade to the py_Polyfit function, which was previously returning an error message if the optional “full” argument was set to False. The new version can be … Continue reading →

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