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Introducing Morphit, a new type of spreadsheet technology

@article{Hawkins2014IntroducingMA,
  title={Introducing Morphit, a new type of spreadsheet technology},
  author={Ted Hawkins and Andrew Lemon and Alec Gibson},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2014},
  volume={abs/1401.7799}
}
This paper describes a new type of spreadsheet which mitigates the errors caused by incorrect range referencing in formulae. This spreadsheet is composed of structured worksheets called tables which contain a hierarchical organization of fields. Formulae are defined at the field-level removing the need for positional references. In addition, relationships can be defined between fields in tables, allowing data to be modeled rather than simply processed and providing a re-usable framework for… 
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