Tag Archives: Excel

On not using Hungarian Notation, and VBA shortcuts

Posted on 01/01/2018 by dougaj4

In June this year Michael Alexander at Bacon Bits had a post on using Hungarian Notation (or not).  It contained the following quote from Stackoverflow, which for me sums up excellently a good reason for not using it: “vUsing adjHungarian nNotation vMakes … Continue reading →

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The Countif bug (and how to avoid it)

Posted on 22/12/2017 by dougaj4

The Countif function counts the number of cells in a range that match some criterion.  If we enter 1,2,3 in cells A1:A3 and enter =COUNTIF($A$1:$A$3,A1) somewhere else, it will return 1: But if we enter three text strings with 16 … Continue reading →

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Excel Uservoice and Python for Excel

Posted on 18/12/2017 by dougaj4

The Excel Uservoice site is a forum for users to post suggestions for improvements to Excel.  A suggestion to add native Python support to Excel, as a replacement to VBA, has had by far the most votes since the start, and … Continue reading →

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Section Properties with MeshPY, including torsion and warping

Posted on 09/12/2017 by dougaj4

I recently discovered robbie van leeuwen’s structural engineering blog, which has an open-source set of Python routines for calculation of section properties, including torsion and warping constants.  The program uses the MeshPY Library for generating the finite element meshes required … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, Strand7, UDFs, VBA, xlwings | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Brent’s Method; Update and Examples

Posted on 06/12/2017 by dougaj4

Brent’s Method is a refinement of Newton’s Method for the numerical solution of any equation with one variable.  The User Defined Function (UDF) QuadBrent was described in:  The Inverse Quadratic Method 3 – Brent’s Method Following a recent question, I have … Continue reading →

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