doc/news/version_3.141/discussion.mdwn



Version 3.141!? Is it not a mistake? Maybe you meant 3.14.1 or 3.15?
--[[Paweł|users/ptecza]]

I suspect the next version will be 3.1415 ;) -- [[Jon]]


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]]


Thanks for the info, Thomas! I didn't know about it. Sorry Joey,
but Don Knuth was faster. What a pity... ;) --[[Paweł|users/ptecza]]