Tag Archives: Excel

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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Two views on VBA

Posted on 28/04/2023 by dougaj4

First from Microsoft: Microsoft are continuing their quest to make downloading spreadsheets with macros ever more difficult, and now any downloaded spreadsheet has VBA code disabled by default. Unblocking the code (if you know and trust the source of the … Continue reading →

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More long numbers with Python

Posted on 08/04/2023 by dougaj4

In A not so easy problem I looked at using Python with Excel (via pyxll) to work with very long integers, using the MPMath package. For high precision calculations involving decimal values MPMath is required, but for simple operations entirely … Continue reading →

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