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It is shown that the implementation of many mathematical programming algorithms using spreadsheet software can be described as instances of a nonprocedural approach to computer programming. This concept is generalized to an abstract computing environment called HYPERCELLS. Its significance in view of rapid development in parallel computation is discussed. With the widespread use of microcomputers in academia, business, industry and government, spreadsheet software has become the most popular general purpose quantitative tool for numerical computation. It is essentially a two dimensional array of cells. Each cell may contain text for documentation, numerical values from data, or a formula dependent on values in other cells. Whenever the value in a cell is changed, the content of cells with formulas depending on it can be recalculated automatically.