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...so you lot, how many posts do you think we will have by Christmas Day?

(see the Forum Index for current amount, I'm just going to say that currently on average we get around 300 posts a day and if I count all time we get around 195 posts a day).
 
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Well this isn't a proper estimate because I don't have all the data, BUT this is what you'd have if posts grew at the rate they have done since the start of the forum.

Let y be the number of posts on the forum on a date x.

The start of the forum was 27th May (assuming - this is when TC's account was created), when there were 0 posts. This is point (147,0).

Today is 18th December and there are 34990 posts. This is point (352,34990).

To find m, use

y-y1
_____

x-x1

=

34990
_____

205

= 170.68

Then substitute into

y - y1 = m (x - x1)

y - 34990 = 170.68 ( x - 352)

to give

y = 170x - 34638

Now let x = 359 (25th December)

y = 170 . 359 - 34638

y = 26392

So if the forum had grown consistently at the same average rate it has since May there would be 26,392 posts. Obviously there are much more than that because the growth isn't uniform and I just created a simple model. If you have a date in the recent past and the number of posts on that date you could model it more accurately.

Now using TC's figure of m=195

y=195x - 34638

y=35567

Which is coming on for 1000 posts between now and Christmas.

Now let m=300

y=300x - 34638

y=73062

Which is ridiculously high.

Take your pick!

Aplogies for the sloppy mathematical pseudo-formatting, best I could do with ASCII.

Did anyone get any of that?
 
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Nope but you could times 300 (average amount of posts per day) by 7 (days left till Christmas) and add the total to the current amount of aritcles and you would get an APPROXIMATE result :P .
 
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Yes, that would give something in the region of 37,000 which is nearish to my second value of y.

Besides, I thought it was great fun doing all that calculation! Oh, look, who are those men in white coats coming down the street?
 
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You may get more now though as it's the Christmas Holidays for us kids...
 
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Hi

I think that we will have 40000 posts by Christmas Day.

Toodle pip
 
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Hi

I think this is a stupid idea, guessing how many posts we'll have by 25/12/2005.

Seems my complaint previously about stupid posts like this went unnoticed after all.

I'm tempted to complain again, but that's a waste of hammering on my keyboard. I know it's the Off Topic section of the forum, but why do we need to do this? Every week we have a thread or three on post counts. Seems some people have nothing better to do than tell us all about how they reached the current post count, what it is, or to post that they're on 927 posts, with 73 posts to go til they hit 1000 posts.

This forum's going the way of The Transport Forum (ie, we'll see mass movement of members to a new or other forum soon (no offence to TTF members here, by the way)) it appears.

Fed up of post count reports,
FGWFan
 
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FGWFan, its all a bit of fun really in the run up to Christmas, it may get a bit boring on the run-up to Christmas and as you can see, there hasn't been that much attention to this thread.
 
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AJP said:
Cockfosters said:
We don't break up 'till Wednesday :(.
Click to expand...

Yer true but Don Valley High school has. Very strange :lol:
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Might have been teacher training?

We weren't supposed to finish 'til yesterday, and that's the official end of term date, but we got told the principal thought it was too close to christmas, and told everyone it was teacher training. Whereas in fact, my tutor told me that the college christmas party was on the monday and everyone stayed at home on the tuesday :lol:
 
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