Verhulst's 1838 logistic fits the US census 1790-1910 within 3.5%, then misses 2020 by 140 million

Part 83 of Forgotten Theories, a series re-testing old scientific claims with modern tools. Find the rest under the #forgotten-theories tag. Pierre-François Verhulst was a Belgian mathematician writing in 1838, in direct reply to Malthus. Malthus ha...