function [t,p]=uspop() % [T,P]=USPOP. US-population data, copied from % Harvard Calculus Consortium. 21 data points % from 1790 to 1990. Population in millions. % % According to Lomen/Lovelock's DE text, a rather % surpringly good fit is based on the observation % that (dP/dt)/P is nearly linear in t. % % Matthias Kawski. http://math.la.asu.edu/~kawski % Old data file. Comments added in Aug 2000. t=[1790:10:1990]; p=[3.9 5.3 7.2 9.6 12.9 17.1 23.1 31.4 ... 38.6 50.2 62.9 76.0 92 105.7 122.8 ... 131.7 150.7 179 205 226.5 248.7];