Tag Archives: UDF

Beams may kiss, but do not hug …

Posted on 09/02/2015 by dougaj4

… not full length anyway. This post was inspired by a now very long discussion at Eng-Tips on the apparently simple question of what happens when you place one short beam on top of a longer one, and apply a … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.3

Posted on 29/12/2014 by dougaj4

A new version (4.3) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. The Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Version 4.3 workbook now provides a feature for the integration of integrands contained in independent (external) UDFs. … Continue reading →

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Numpy and Scipy for Excel

Posted on 14/12/2014 by dougaj4

The Python Numpy and Scipy libraries contain a huge number of maths and science related functions.  Most of these are not directly available from Excel, but using the free ExcelPython package it is fairly easy to make the link, vastly increasing … Continue reading →

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Working with array functions

Posted on 10/12/2014 by dougaj4

Regular visitors will know that I make frequent use of User Defined Functions that return an array of data, and need to be entered as an array function. This has the advantages that the functions are very flexible in the … Continue reading →

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More on Regular Expressions

Posted on 08/12/2014 by dougaj4

The previous post presented a User Defined Function (UDF) using regular expressions to extract all numbers, or a selected number, from any string (or a list of strings).  In this post I will look more closely at the code used to achieve … Continue reading →

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