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The answer probably expected here is "Spreadsheet" or "spreadsheet program".

Most new things, particularly in Westernised countries, get categorised firstly by their appearances. (The way motor cars or automobiles were first called "horseless carriages" is another example.) This is usually followed by efforts to categorise things by their functions, or what they do.

VisiCalc, for example, usually called " the first spreadsheet program" ( actually the first one available to the general public to use on their PC's) was designed by Bricklin and Frankston to enable us to do three things:

(a) To record and display information, like a piece of grid paper

(b) To do simple mathematical and logical calculations, like a hand-held calculator and,

(c) To give a list of instructions to a computer, like a programming language

Modern spreadsheet programs have additional functions, but the three listed above remain the main ones. (Des Howell)

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