Tables. For centuries, they have been used to present similar data for record-keeping, counting amounts, and data analysis. For a long time, tables have been a constant tool in accounting and statistics. And it was not until the end of the 20th century that they acquired a completely different quality. Spreadsheets became a symbiosis of past and present technologies. Convenient data organization and calculation methods were combined with computers' computational abilities. This allowed you to quickly perform calculations and analyse huge amounts of data. It also solved the problem of data storage and transfer.
Spreadsheets are built not as an entity, but as an application program, also called a tabular processor. Such program allows you to keep records of data in tables, make various calculations and conversions. Tabular processors are used everywhere, as well as tables once. The main advantage of such programs is that they do not require specific knowledge in accounting, it ...