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 ...
No funds, however, were authorized or appropriated for the interstate highway system. Instead, the act appropriated $225 million for primary roads in each of the first three post-war years, $150 million for secondary and feeder road projects, and $125 million for urban federal-aid highway construction.The act established apportionment formulas for each state.n 1956, federal aid for highways increased dramatically with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway and Highway Revenue Acts of 1956 (P.L. 84-627, 70 Stat 374). The act authorized an additional $1 billion for FY1957, $1.7 billion for FY1958, and $2 billion for FY1959.