On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:33 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:

> A Master-Cell-Content doesn't make much sense, does it?

sometimes it can make sense - for example if content is "Nothing" and it
applies to many cells?

Anyway I think the master cell in this discussion is a type of analogy
to help understand the problem - it is not really proposed as the
solution. 

The real point is that the spreadsheet is sparsely populated, with some
content possibly repeated many times. Using some other analogies, the
problem could be similar to text file compression, or like using
pointers in C++?

I have no idea about the solution - it is like astrophysics to me ;) but
I do think the principle might be: don't store a thing more than once,
instead store some information about where the thing occurs.

jim

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