be closest to the requested forgetting index: after a day, after a week, after a month or after a year?
In conditions of no outside interference, the more time you give to SuperMemo, the better it will approach the requested level of retention. However, if you encounter this knowledge in real life (i.e. outside SuperMemo), the result cannot be predicted. For example, interference early in the interval may have no effect, while interference later in the interval may increase retention in the repetition to come and reduce the retention in the repetition that will follow yet another interval.
