Tag Archives: Excel

Binary functions, combining text, and finding unique columns

Posted on 30/09/2014 by dougaj4

I recently had an e-mail request asking for a method of finding unique columns in an Excel table consisting of either blank cells or an entry of 1.  An easy way to do this would be to convert the columns to … Continue reading →

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Run Fortran from Excel with Python and F2Py

Posted on 15/09/2014 by dougaj4

I have previously posted on the use of the Silverfrost Fortran compiler with Excel (e.g. Linking Excel to Fortran).  More recently I have been concentrating on accessing high performance compiled routines via Python and the Python maths and science libraries … Continue reading →

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ExcelPython2, Alglib and Spline-Matrix update

Posted on 12/09/2014 by dougaj4

The ExcelPython add-in, offering easy access to Python code from Excel VBA, has had a major update to Release 2.  The new version provides new features and simpler installation, but has some incompatibilities with code written for the previous  version, so the … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.2

Posted on 23/08/2014 by dougaj4

The latest version (4.2) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. For more details of the background see: Faster Integration with the Tanh-Sinh Method and subsequent posts on this subject. In addition to … Continue reading →

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Solving polynomials – update

Posted on 14/08/2014 by dougaj4

The polynomial spreadsheet (details here) provides functions to solve polynomial equations of any order; using an “exact” method for up to quartic, and an iterative procedure for higher orders.  The input for the functions requires the equation coefficients to be … Continue reading →

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