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Now, if you searched for the term spreadsheet, you would not have found that patent because that term did not appear in it. The phrase &ldquo;natural order recalculation&rdquo; didn't appear either. This algorithm &mdash; and it was indeed the algorithm that they covered, basically every imaginable way of coding this algorithm &mdash; the algorithm is called topological sorting, and that term did not appear in the patent either. It presented itself as a patent on a technique for compilation. So, reasonable searching would not have found this patent but it would still have been a basis to sue you.