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mturmon
on Jan 4, 2016
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Why a simple spreadsheet spread like wildfire
Hmm, the place I got that from was Matlab, but VisiCalc (1979) predates Matlab (1984).
I wonder if the colon idiom for matrix indexing was in use before 1979?
toadkicker
on Jan 4, 2016
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Yes it comes from statistical mathematics
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I wonder if the colon idiom for matrix indexing was in use before 1979?