Dave, et al,
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Andrew B.J.. Two or 3 others were unreadable. Sorry.
I am revisiting a few math projects that I've put aside for some time.
one of them i
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-Original Message-
From: Tad Dunne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sundial List
Date: Quarta-feira, 23 de Setembro de 1998 15:34
Subject: What's sum of series of increasing powers?
>Help!
>
>I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet and need a formula or function that
>will give,
>
>for an input A a
Thanks to Hendrik Desmet
Cum tua non edas, carpis mea carmina, Laeli.
Carpere vel noli nostra, vel ede tua.
It's quotation from Martial [M. Valerius Martialis], Epigrammata, I, 91
"As you don't publish your works, you criticize my poems, Laelius.
Either don't criticize ours, or publish yours."
Jim Tallman wrote:
>
>I am working on a couple sundial concepts and need more information.
> Can anyone tell me where to find any reference regarding hemisphereums,
> and/or reflecting sundials (that reflect the time from a windowsill onto
> the ceiling of the room). Particularly the latter.
Someone may have a simple formula, but if not, you could write a bit
of code:
Public Function PowSum(A as Double, B as Integer) As Double
'
Dim I as Integer
'
PowSum = 0#
For I = 1 to B
PowSum = PowSum + A^I
Next I
Return
End
If you put it in a module in the workbook it s
I am working on a couple sundial concepts and need more information.
Can anyone tell me where to find any reference regarding hemisphereums,
and/or reflecting sundials (that reflect the time from a windowsill onto
the ceiling of the room). Particularly the latter...
Jim Tallman [EMAIL
Clem,
I've found that Gnuplot works very well for large data sets (esp on a
Unix "box"), not to mention one of its most attractive features, its
free!
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot_info.html
http://science.nas.nasa.gov/~woo/gnuplot/beta/
Best Regards,
Luke Coletti
Clem P
> Help!
> I'm working on an Excel spreadsheet and need a formula or function that
> will give,
> for an input A and B, the sum of all the powers of A for integers from
> 1 to B.
> Example: 1.05 + 1.05 squared + 1.05 cubed ...
> Can anyone help me?
> -- Tad Dunne
This is called the geometri
