Tag Archives: mpmath

Installing Python and pyxll from scratch

Posted on September 26, 2022 by dougaj4

Updated 28th September 2022. Matplotlib latest version OK. I recently installed Python and pyxll (plus the required additional libraries) on a new computer, which raised a few problems with incompatible versions, so here is a summary of what worked (as … Continue reading →

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Pint, MPmath and implied units, working with Excel

Posted on April 30, 2022 by dougaj4

Spreadsheets linking to the Python Pint and MPmath libraries have been presented here before at: Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy mpmath for Excel I have now updated the spreadsheet to work with pyxll, and with some new functions and … Continue reading →

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More powers of 3

Posted on October 20, 2019 by dougaj4

Following the discovery of a question to which the answer is 42, the same team has now reported a sum of three cubes equal to 3.  As before, the result can be checked from Excel, linking to mpmath, via pyxll. … Continue reading →

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The answer to Life the Universe and Everything …

Posted on September 19, 2019 by dougaj4

is 42, as is well-known: The actual question, to which the answer is 42, is not known, but a lesser known long standing question involving this number has recently been solved: The original problem, set in 1954 at the University … Continue reading →

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mpmath for Excel

Posted on January 13, 2019 by dougaj4

mpmath has been mentioned in passing here before, but not in any detail.  The mpmath site says: mpmath is a free (BSD licensed) Python library for real and complex floating-point arithmetic with arbitrary precision. It has been developed by Fredrik … Continue reading →

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