Tag Archives: UDF

Solving higher order polynomials

Posted on 13/01/2011 by dougaj4

The Quartic spreadsheet presented here previously (most recently here) uses algebraic techniques to provide an “exact” solution to polynomial equations of up to fouth order.  For polynomials of higher order there is no general algebraic solution, and numerical methods are … Continue reading →

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LatPile update

Posted on 11/01/2011 by dougaj4

I have just posted an update to the LatpilePY spreadsheet, fixing a bug in the way in which it read the first row of data from input PY curves, which was resulting in the program failing to run if there were … Continue reading →

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More on the Excel Evaluate function

Posted on 14/12/2010 by dougaj4

Previous posts have presented the Eval() User Defined Function, using the Evaluate function in VBA to evaluate mathematical functions displayed as text (Evaluate Function, Evaluate Function – Update).  It was recently pointed out by Jeff Weir that the Evaluate function has its origins … Continue reading →

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Interpolation Update

Posted on 07/12/2010 by dougaj4

The interpolation functions in IP2.xls have been given an overhaul: The linear and quadratic interpolations routines have been modified to accept negative values. All the routines have been modified to convert the table range to an array, rather than using a … Continue reading →

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Maximum distance between two points

Posted on 27/11/2010 by dougaj4

I have just written a short User Defined Function (UDF) to find the maximum distance between any two points from a list of coordinates, and since it may be useful to others, I will post it here.  Here is the … Continue reading →

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