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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For all those who believe time is infinite please apply a logistic transformation to your dates.

In what unit? They're not scale invariant.

Also in case you're serious, I'm sure (by the pigeonhole principle) you'll run out of exponents just about as fast as you would run out of integers.

[โ€“] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can derive the date by first taking the largest unit, checking if it makes sense, then moving to a smaller time unit iteratively until the date comes out right.