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| author | tschwinge <tschwinge@web> | 2009-06-15 07:17:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2009-06-15 07:17:38 -0400 |
| commit | 816a772037ffb904dac96120227f11124c1f8623 (patch) | |
| tree | 309038c1751e0be15fdbe99760fdd8dc1b596701 | |
| parent | c5dd7927490914e60c0f565fcc3224bb66ebfd67 (diff) | |
Knuth to the rescue!
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn index b6039312e..be3c03cd1 100644 --- a/doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ Version 3.141!? Is it not a mistake? Maybe you meant 3.14.1 or 3.15? >> And next 3.14159, 3.141592, etc. :) I think that version schema >> should be patented by Joey ;) --[[Paweł|users/ptecza]] + +>>> That's not exactly new; quoting from <http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html>: +>>> +>>>> The latest and best TeX is currently version 3.1415926 (and plain.tex is version 3.141592653); METAFONT is currently version 2.718281 (and plain.mf is version 2.71). My last will and testament for TeX and METAFONT is that their version numbers ultimately become $\pi$ and $e$, respectively. At that point they will be completely error-free by definition. +>>> +>>> --[[tschwinge]] |