Furthermore, FORTRAN, the FORmula TRANslation language, was often
used for formulas, where i,j, and k were indexes to an Array. This
was a notation that predated computers.

We got the word 'array' from the same source: if FORTRAN had not
been used by engineers and mathematicians, we probably would have
had a 'table' instead, which is what we now call that construct
when we use Access to save it to disk and read it back again.

(david)

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