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- From: sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: USDebtWatch submitted to purdue archive
- Message-ID: <SOWA.92Jul23100836@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:08:36 GMT
- Organization: Wahoo 5
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- I have uploaded my program USDebtWatch to
- sonata.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/submissions. A description follows:
-
- USDebtWatch
- FreeWare Version 0.1 (92.07.23)
-
- Algorithm:
- USDebtWatch displays an estimate of the national debt of the United
- States of America. The estimate is updated at a regular interval
- specified by the user. Debt computation routines are taken from Jamie
- Zawinski's xdebt. The debt estimate is derived from the 1989 Survey of
- Current Business (SCB '89). It assumes a starting figure of
- $2,707,284,000,000 as of December 31, 1988, with a linear rate of
- increase of $7673.015 per second. Although the result looks horrifying
- enough as is, it is certainly an obsolete underestimate. If you know of
- a more recent and/or accurate algorithm for estimating the national
- debt, please send me email. I used a FormCell, so it would be easy to
- upgrade the program to simultaneously display the results of more than
- one estimate.
-
- Icon:
-
- The icon is intended to depict Lady Liberty being crushed by the burden
- of a heavy debt portfolio. I am not an artist; otherwise, I would have
- done a better job.
-
- NeXTSTEP Notes:
-
- Interface by Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com). USDebtWatch is an old FORTRAN
- hacker's first publicly-released NeXTSTEP program! Preferences are
- stored in the defaults database.
-
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- Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
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- Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
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