Mathematica/Excel Users

[Saladsamurai]

I have been struggling to solve the following for over a month now. If you have any ideas, feel free to advise.

I am using Mathematica (I am about to try this in MATLAB).

I have an equation that is literally a page long. I use MATHEMATICA to solve the equation for a particular variable of interest.

I now have an expression for that variable. I need to plug that expression into Excel, but as you know, if you Copy/Paste from Mathematica to a txt file, you get either MarkUp Language or some other Gobblety-gok....

For example if I solve 2ZX=7Y for Y in Mathematica, it will make the answer 'pretty' like this:
Y=\frac{2}{7}ZX when i need it to come out like this: Y=(1/2)*Z*X

Similarly, exponents should be outputted like this X^7 instead of X7.

Any ideas?

I was thinking of using MATLAB instead. Won't the output come out as desired if I use it instead?

[DaleSpam]

There is a product called Mathematica Link for Excel. But what can you do in Excel that you can't in Mathematica?

[Saladsamurai]

We (my work) build all of our 'calculators' in VBA as prototypes and then send them off for JAVA development.

The JAVA guys (computer scientists) don't know Mathematica and us Engineers aren't exactly JAVA wizards.

VBA is a nice compromise.

[DaleSpam]

The computer scientists should learn Mathematica. It should be easy for them to learn, after all it is part of their skillset to be able to learn new languages quickly.

However, in order to parse a long equation without making it pretty try "InputForm" or even "FullForm".

[Saladsamurai]

The computer scientists should learn Mathematica. It should be easy for them to learn, after all it is part of their skillset to be able to learn new languages quickly.

However, in order to parse a long equation without making it pretty try "InputForm" or even "FullForm".

It's a coorparation, so I'll send that on up the ladder :rofl:

Do you know what settings that is under by chance? I am not terribly familiar with Mathematica. I usually don't need symbolic, so I use MATLAB.

Thanks again :smile:

[Saladsamurai]

Oh..I get it. It's a Function! And it works Brilliantly!

Thank you so much DaleSpam

[DaleSpam]

Excellent, glad it helped!

It's a coorparation, so I'll send that on up the ladder :rofl:Hehe, while you are at it be sure to ask for the address where I should send my invoice for consulting services :smile: