a very, very old Excel table

[TobyB]

Microsoft is not the innovator of the table calculation. the old Egyptians do this thousands of years before them - the photo below, I have taken at Karnak temple in Luxor, verifies this. you can see columns and rows filled with hieroglyphic numerics and the summaries at the bottom - even the complete summary of all columns in the right corner. this table describes a register of food, which should assigned to the workers - at least that was the information the tourist guide gives me.

[Hallett 82]

And we think Excel gives US headaches today - at least we don't have to be 'chizelers'. . .