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Enter the two dates, then subtract the earlier date from today's date. 83251 days, some 228 years. Not sure if your objective is to use a cli function specifically or just learn how to do something, but if you just need to make the calculation, LibreOffice is a very easy option. |
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It seems I’m slightly more cautious than you because my guess which bases on the previous results is: no less than 7 days and no more than 2 years after Slackware 14.0 release: date --date="September 28, 2012 +7 days" +"%Y-%m-%d" Code:
2012-10-05 Code:
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2014-02-09 I prefer 99.99% of the practical certainty as I wrote about that in the post 33. (It seems to me that the term “practical certainty” was coined by Descartes.) |
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There is also a trend to a longer time between releases. |
Next Slackware release will occur sometimes between now and never with 100% certainty.
No algorithm was hurt to make this prediction. |
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16 occurrences in the range 0–199 and 17 occurrences in the range 200–399. So none of these ranges is privileged. On the other hand the older releases periods are usually shorter (or very short) and the newer releases periods are usually longer (or very long). So there’s the tendency to prolong these periods. The next range after the mentioned ones is 400–499 and it’s empty so far. According to the overall tendency sooner or later some releases will appear in that range as well. I assume that it’ll happen rather sooner than later. That was my point from post #37.
*** In fact to be fair I should take into consideration the range of the equal size as the previous ones: 400–599. It’s almost empty (one occurrence). Sooner or later more releases will appear here. I say: rather sooner than later. |
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between 1784 and today (yesterday an old lady at greengrocer's asked me exactly that), to calculate the beauty of a Leonardo painting or make some prediction based in numerology, like "When a big asteroid will impact with Earth and put an end to all this idiocy?", I advice to install LibreOffice. Compile it from source for a better result. (Just to remember people that Microsoft Office Suite is indispensable, essential, irreplaceable software). |
Nice program, troyaine! Thanks.
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The red line is the trend obtained from simple linear regression. The X axis is voodoo, and there is no reason to suppose a linear model would work here anyway, but if it did, then the next release is some 340 days after 14.0.
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