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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • So? It’s not like pregnant women are planning weeks in advance for an exact date to give birth. An estimated due date is exactly that: an estimate. I don’t have exact statistics on hand but if I remember correctly, your 10% are even a bit high and it’s more like 3% on the exact date. But about 50% are within +/- one week of the original due date and 80% are within +/- two weeks which is pretty good accuracy for a 40 week time span¹. If you adjust based on ultrasound results, you can get even more accurate estimates but the original due date gives you a good timeline when those ultrasounds (and other examinations) should be done.

    ¹ seriously, try estimating any other 40 week project to within a week with 50% accuracy.


  • The latter. This is not about politics but about medicine and it’s nothing new. Calculating weeks of pregnancy from the previous menstruation is generally a lot more reliable in predicting the date of birth than calculating from conception.

    The mother may not remember the exact day she had sex, she may have had sex multiple times and not know which time led to conception and as an additional hurdle, sperm may need multiple days to to reach the egg so even if she had sex only once and remembers the exact date, that doesn’t really help to know when the egg was fertilized.

    On the other hand, there is a relatively narrow window (a few days) during a cycle when fertilization is the most likely, so calculating from a known point of reference relative to her cycle gives good results.






  • Not sure about the US but where I live, all medical records need to be stored for thirty years, mostly so you have legal protection in case complications arise.

    Imagine that a woman has an abortion, then years later she is pregnant again, this time with a child she wants to keep. She has a miscarriage and tries to sue the abortion clinic because she thinks they permanently damaged something during the abortion.

    Also in case someone claims that a medical procedure was performed against their will or they were not informed about the risks.

    And this works both ways. Because the clinics (and also all other medical professionals like midwives) must keep those records, the patients can demand them to be used as evidence to back up their claim.



  • Definitely not C#. Wrong syntax for main, wrong syntax for foreach (C# has foreach (var i in someCollection) and what even is this method call syntax with =?

    Edit: I dug around the website. It’s D. I’m still confused about the method call syntax though. Usually, D uses parentheses like most other C-style languages. Must be some weird syntax where you can call methods like property setters which was useful for this particular code golf challenge.