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Solving the Lagrangian Point equation for the Moon
This post was prompted by a recent question at Fitting high order polynomials, asking for Excel methods to solve the equations for the radius of the Moon’s Lagrangian Point 1. All the methods described in this post have been added to … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, iterative solution, Lagrangian point, Newton, polynomial solution, UDFs, VBA
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Linest, NPV, IRR and solving polynomials
In a comment on Using LINEST for non-linear curve fitting Lori Miller posted a formula that found the coefficients fitting a cubic polynomial curve to a set of data, then solved the resulting equation to find the X value for a given … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, IRR, Jenkins-Traub, NPV, polynomial solution, UDF, VBA
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