Tag Archives: VBA

Units for Excel 2 – Unit aware evaluation of functions

Posted on 31/07/2012 by dougaj4

The Units4Excel spreadsheet described in the first post of this series provides functions to convert values from one set of units to another, but does not allow for automatic evaluation of functions, taking account of the specified units, as performed by programs … Continue reading →

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Alglib Spline Functions 1.32

Posted on 23/07/2012 by dougaj4

Following a comment to AlgLib Spline Functions, the AL-Spline-Matrix spreadsheets have been updated, and may be downloaded from AL-Spline-Matrix03 for Excel 2003 and earlier and AL-Spline-Matrix07 for Excel 2007 and 2010.

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Units for Excel

Posted on 11/07/2012 by dougaj4

One of the reasons that programs like MathCad tend to be preferred to Excel for engineering and scientific applications is that they have much better facilities for dealing with different units of measurement.  This isn’t difficult, since the only built-in function provided … Continue reading →

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LatPilePY 1.04

Posted on 04/07/2012 by dougaj4

Following comments from Stephen on LatPile 1.03 I have modified the code so that if the specified Soil Properties range includes lines 8 and 9 (for specified effective depths at the top of each layer), but these lines are blank, the effective … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Dimensions

Posted on 30/06/2012 by dougaj4

This post is a continuation from The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Different sources give a wide variety of different dimensions for the dome, but there seems to be reasonable agreement that the “across flats” diameter of the … Continue reading →

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