Template:Uspop/doc

Usage

{{#expr: {{uspop-base}} + {{uspop-daily-inc}} * {{Age in days|{{Uspop-startyear}}|{{Uspop-startmonth}}|1}} round -3}}

• Present value of {{Uspop commas}} for today (UTC) is 338,827,000
• Present value of {{Uspop-base}} is 317,135,349
• Present value of {{Uspop-daily-inc}} is 5,400
• Present value of {{Uspop-startyear}} is 2013
• Present value of {{Uspop-startmonth}} is 12

• Last UPDATE: 2011-JUN-07

• TO UPDATE:
  1. edit template:uspop-daily-inc
  2. edit template:uspop-base
  3. edit template:Uspop-startmonth (if needed)
  4. edit template:Uspop-startyear (if needed)
• The figure here is refreshed automatically once a day at 00:00 UTC
  • at that time it aims to be in agreement with https://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html to the nearest thousand

• Figure is rounded to 3 places to reduce false precision, and to reduce chance of output in scientific notation
• Rounding that ends in 5 zeroes (even if only rounded to units place) intermittently outputs scientific notation.
  • see source code for table below for method to prevent output in scientific notation

• EVERY month, US Census Bureau changes the # per day & the base population for start of the month.
  • Daily increment at last update was 5400
  • By extrapolation, population at midnight UTC at start of month of last update was 317,135,349

Places rounded to	result	"textified"	with commas	Comment
0	338,827,149
1	338,827,150	338827150	338,827,150
2	338,827,100	338827100	338,827,100
3	338,827,000	338827000	338,827,000	At 5,400 people per day, this value will change daily.
4	338,830,000	338830000	338,830,000
5	338,800,000	338800000	338,800,000
6	339,000,000	339000000	339,000,000
7	340,000,000	340000000	340,000,000
8	300,000,000	300000000	300,000,000