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In the 1970s a fellow by the name of Dan Bricklin was at Harvard watching a professor teach finance. The professor had written a grid of numbers on the blackboard and was explaining some sort of financial model. When he changed a number, he had to erase and recalculate all the numbers that depended on it.
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Oualline, S., Oualline, G. (2018). Working with Spreadsheets in LibreOffice Calc. In: Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6_5
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