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NAME¶
cycle - a calendar for womenSYNOPSIS¶
cycleDESCRIPTION¶
Cycle is a calendar program for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and define the d.o.b. (date of birth) of a child. It allows the user to write notes and helps to supervise the reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets.FEATURES¶
The program is capable of:- Calculate of the days of menstruation, based on length of the cycle or on statistics of a period.
- Calculate the "safe" sex days, fertile period and day to ovulations
- Definition of D.O.B . (Date Of Birth) of a child
- Allows to write notes
- Helps to supervise reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets
HOW DOES IT WORK¶
It uses the calendar method for the definition of fertile days. For this is necessary to determine duration, at least, of last six cycles. For determine the fertile days it uses this algoritm:- First day: duration of shortest cycle minus 18
- Last day: duration of longest cycle minus 11
- Ovulation: is considered in the middle of fertile period (Determine the exact day isn't possible with the calendar method)
USAGE¶
It is necessary to mark the beginning of menstruation. This is possible clicking with the right button on the date and chosing "The beginning of a cycle". Similarly the mark can be removed. Using duration of last six cycles, the program will calculate- Fertile period - green cells
- Ovulation day (the middle fertile period) - brightly green cell
- Beginning of following menstruation - pink cells
FILES¶
- ~/.cycle
- This is the directory where cycle stores the data.
AUTHOR¶
cycle was written by Oleg S. Gints. This manual page was written for Debian by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>.SEE ALSO¶
You can find cycle's home page at: http://cycle.sourceforge.net/ More information about calendar method are available at: http://www.mama.ru/gynecolog/STA/st18.htm (in Russian)6 April 2005 | Miriam Ruiz |