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Maybe it is time to consider INvers, irrational number versioning, as used in eg TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX In
by megapatch 3y ago
Maybe it is time to consider INvers, irrational number versioning, as used in eg TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
In TeX the version approaches Pi, every new version adds a decimal. Elegant, will hold forever!
TeX 3.141592653 is 45 years old.
Its companion Metafont has version number 2.71828182, you can see where this is going.
- xigoi 3y agoDonald Knuth intentionally chose this versioning scheme to point out how much he trusts his software to never change.