Re: Spreadsheet cell notation

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> Who came up with this notation?

Dan Bricklin. See www.bricklin.com for all you ever wanted to know
about why spreadsheets are like they are.

I "almost invented the spreadsheet" when I was in high school, I
guess around the same time Bricklin was in college, but my thing
was based on a kind of active math/engineering workbook crossed
with Basic rather than something that would have been of interest
to accountants.  More like Tk!Solver, I guess, and really cheesy
and slow (it was all in Basic and used the Basic interpreter to
evaluate expressions).

When I saw Visicalc and realised I was behind my time.

• Spreadsheet cell notation Mark Fowler 15:59 on 19 Jan 2004
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