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• Which date is correct for Price's completion of the Northampton table — 1769, 1771, or 1783? (1771 first publication; 1783 revised table; 1769 unsupported)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-24 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, dates, sourcing-provenance
• Price's 1771 first edition already prints a Northampton table, as Appendix Table IV
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-24 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, dates, primary-source
• Price's 1783 fourth edition prints a re-formed Northampton table built on 46 years of data, 1735 to 1780
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-24 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, dates, equitable-life
• Price's Northampton data run to 1770, so a 1769 completion date is unsupported by his own text
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-24 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, dates, walford
• Which date is correct for Price's completion of the Northampton mortality table — 1769 (Walford 1885), 1771 (first edition of Observations on Reversionary Payments), or 1783 (fourth edition, per a secondary web source)?
  question open 2026-09-23 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, sourcing-provenance, dates
• Verify Nicely's exact Pentium FDIV report-to-Intel and public-disclosure dates against a primary
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-27 · pentium-fdiv-bug, thomas-nicely, verification, history-of-computing, primary-source