esom

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   by esom 12y ago

   The data and presentation taken literally are not misleading I suppose -- US population centroid. It is a graph of manifest destiny, like another comment said - the spread of the US population and not talking about how it spread or what rec
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   by esom 12y ago

   According to this paper* there were estimates of ~600k remaining in 1800. 3.9million citizens in 1790 USA -> nontrivial number and effect on the mean centroid, especially considering they are not uniformly spread. As for no discontinuit
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   by esom 12y ago

   You're right, wasn't thinking of Africans. But I think you knew what I meant.
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   by esom 12y ago

   This doesn't seem to take into account the non-European population^1...? I guess that's fine if you state it -- just people the census was counting (not even all white people in US territories all the time). So this annoyingly he
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   by esom 12y ago

   Maybe the reason people are upvoting this is because the book uses software and programming to make the mathematics precise. This is not a typical math book - just like Sussman's classes in which you program up physics stuff as you go