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How Ordinary Elimination Became Gaussian Elimination
Newton, in notes that he would rather not have seen published, described a
process for solving simultaneous equations that later authors applied
specifically to linear equations. This method that Euler did not recommend,
that Legendre called "ordinary," and that Gauss called "common" - is now named
after Gauss: "Gaussian" elimination. Gauss's name became associated with
elimination through the adoption, by professional computers, of a specialized
notation that Gauss devised for his own least squares calculations. The
notation allowed elimination to be viewed as a sequence of arithmetic
operations that were repeatedly optimized for hand computing and eventually
were described by matrices.Comment: 56 pages, 21 figures, 1 tabl
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Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory
The modern definition of unemployment emerged in the late 1930s from research conducted at the Works Progress Administration and the Census Bureau. According to this definition, people who are not working but actively searching for work are counted as unemployed. This concept was first used in the Enumerative Check Census, a follow-up sample for the 1937 Census of Unemployment, and continued with the Monthly Report on the Labor Force survey, begun in December 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. A similar definition is now used to measure unemployment around the world.