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In 1626 Peter Minuit, first governor of New Netherland, purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for about $24. … Assume for simplicity a uniform rate of 7% from 1626 to the present, and suppose that the Indians had put their $24 at interest at that rate … and had added the interest to the principal yearly. What would be the amount now, after 280 years? 24 × (1.07)280 = more than 4,042,000,000. [The current value of Manhattan is] a little more than $4,898,400,000. … The Indians could have bought back most of the property now, with improvements; from which one might point the moral of saving money and putting it at interest!
– W.F. White, A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics, 1908
For those who didn’t look at the Advanced Placement course taking reported here in the Chronicle, here is a breakdown of subjects by gender.
In these subjects, the percentage of females exceeded that of males, sometimes vastly.
—-Art History: 67 percent female
—-Biology: 58 percent
—-Chinese: 55 percent
—-English language and comp: 63 percent
—-English literature: 64 percent
—-Environmental science: 56 percent
—-European history: 54 percent
—-French language: 70 percent
—-French literature: 71 percent
—-Human geography: 55 percent
—-Italian: 65 percent
—-Japanese: 54 percent
—-Psychology: 65 percent
—-Spanish language: 64 percent
—-Spanish literature: 67 percent
—-Studio art: 70 percent
—-US history: 55 percent
—-World history: 55 percent
And here are the subjects in which females lagged:
—-Calculus BC: 41 percent
—-Chemistry: 47 percent
—-Computer science: 17 percent
—-Macroeconomics: 45 percent
—-Microeconomics: 43 percent
—-Music theory: 43 percent
—-Physics B: 35 percent
—-Physics C (electricity): 22 percent
—-Physics C (mechanics): 27 percent
And in these subjects, the gender breakdown was about even:
—-Calculus AB
—-German
—-Government and politics
—-US Government and politics
—-Latin
—-Statistics
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