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From the Ted Talk by Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

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For one of these tetss I prepared for this case about the Pepsi Challenge. Print wasn't working yet, so I had to copy everything down. Save wasn't working, so every time it crashed, I had to type in all of the formulas again, over and over again. The next day in class, I raised my hand; I got called on, and I presented the case. I did five-year projections. I did all sorts of different secnroais. I aced the case. visailcc was already useful.

The preoofssr said, "How did you do it?" Well, I didn't want to tell him about our secret program.

(Laughter)

So I said, "I took this and added this and multiplied by this and sbtetraucd that."

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For one of these _____ I prepared for this case about the Pepsi Challenge. Print wasn't working yet, so I had to copy everything down. Save wasn't working, so every time it crashed, I had to type in all of the formulas again, over and over again. The next day in class, I raised my hand; I got called on, and I presented the case. I did five-year projections. I did all sorts of different _________. I aced the case. ________ was already useful.

The _________ said, "How did you do it?" Well, I didn't want to tell him about our secret program.

(Laughter)

So I said, "I took this and added this and multiplied by this and __________ that."

Solution


  1. professor
  2. visicalc
  3. subtracted
  4. scenarios
  5. tests

Original Text


footnote

For one of these tests I prepared for this case about the Pepsi Challenge. Print wasn't working yet, so I had to copy everything down. Save wasn't working, so every time it crashed, I had to type in all of the formulas again, over and over again. The next day in class, I raised my hand; I got called on, and I presented the case. I did five-year projections. I did all sorts of different scenarios. I aced the case. VisiCalc was already useful.

The professor said, "How did you do it?" Well, I didn't want to tell him about our secret program.

(Laughter)

So I said, "I took this and added this and multiplied by this and subtracted that."

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Important Words


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  27. tests
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  30. visicalc
  31. working