On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:35:04 -0400 Robert Coe <bob@1776.com> wrote:

| To those of us of a certain age, "WPA" stands for "Works Progress
| Administration", the makework program set up by Franklin Roosevelt to combat
| the effects of the Great Herbert Clark Hoover Republican Depression of the
| 1930s. Unemployed laborers fixed roads, planted trees, spruced up national
| parks, etc. Unemployed mathematicians were put to work calculating logarithms
| by hand. Until the late 1950s, when computers started taking over such
| calculations, the "WPA tables" were considered the most accurate and reliable
| tables of logarithms ever published.

Sounds like something we need today. But I guess we will have to wait
until there's a change in the White House, again.

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