996,692
quite a bit better, but still not that great
Post 1 in 23 posts
Post 2 in 26 posts
Post 3 in 29 posts
Post 4 in 293 posts
Post 5 in 296 posts
...
Post 690 in 663,359 posts (last post)
That still means on average, you'd be posting 7 every 10,000 posts.
If anyone is interested in how I calculate this it's not that hard. For the first 5 posts it's pretty self explanatory, you simply go to the next lowest step (so in this case would be 996,669) and deduct that from the original. For the last post you just go to the lowest possible case (in this case 333,333) and deduct that from the original. The more difficult part is finding how many posts there will be until you run out, although it's still relatively easy. All you have to do is map it out as a base-3 system, it can be a little bit confusing though. We use the following maps, 9 = 2, 6 = 1 and 3 = 0. Then you just convert, so the lowest possible bound is 996,669, converting this to a notation we can use is 221,112 then following base-3 conversion rules = 2 + 1*3 + 1*9 + 1*27 + 2*81 + 2*243 = 689, but you have to remember this is assuming we're starting from zero, which we aren't, we're starting from 1, so we just add one to it to make it 690.
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