Tag Archives: UDFs

Solving the Lagrangian Point equation for the Moon

Posted on June 23, 2019 by

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 →

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Multiple Integration with Scipy

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

Scipy has 3 functions for multiple numerical integration in the scipy.integrate module: dblquad: Compute a double integral. tplquad: Compute a triple integral’ nquad: Integration over multiple variables. I have written six functions to call these functions from Excel, via Pyxll: Each … Continue reading →

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mpmath for Excel

Posted on January 13, 2019 by

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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Transferring large arrays with Pyxll

Posted on January 5, 2019 by

Pyxll is a commercial Excel add-in linking Excel and Python.  The latest version  offers greatly improved performance in transferring data between Excel and Python as Numpy arrays, amongst many other new features and improvements. To check what this means in practice, … Continue reading →

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More updates to ArcSpline and IP2

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

I have uploaded version 2.18 of the IP2 spreadsheet to: IP2.zip The new version includes updates to the IP, IP_4, and ArcSpline functions, as described below.  The download is free and includes full open-source code. The IP and IP_4 functions find … Continue reading →

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More SciPy Solvers

Posted on December 19, 2018 by

The xlwings Scipy spreadsheet has been updated with a new example of the xl_SolveF function, that uses the Scipy Optimize root function.  The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The new example uses a python function ic_calc (included in the … Continue reading →

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More iterative solvers

Posted on October 28, 2018 by

Following the recent post on using Brent’s Method solvers on an array (Iterative solvers and arrays), here is another example with an engineering related problem.  The example is included in the xlScipy3 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The depth … Continue reading →

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