â¢ The greatest integer (or floor) function and its graph, seen in calculus and computer science, exhibit similar features. â¢ We will take a peek into calculus and preview the related topics of one-and two-sided limits and continuity. Piecewise-defined functions appear frequently in these sections of a calculus course.
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile âNational System of Interstate and Defense Highwaysâ that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of âspeedy, safe transcontinental travel.â At the same time, highway advocates argued, âin case of atomic attack on our key ...
Eisenhower Highway/Interstate 70. The Interstate System was created when the Federal-Aid Highway Act was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 29, 1956. Kansas opened the first section of Interstate in the nation on I-70 just west of Topeka on November 14, 1956. The event marked the beginning of the largest public works project in modern U.S. history. The general route of I-70 was laid out during the early months after the Federal-Aid Highway Act was enacted in 1956.