From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T03:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.[89].\d+ and beyond.

Jan Svitok wrote:
> Don Knuth managed around similar problem with TeX versions converging
> to Math::PI and METAFONT to Math::E, each new version adds one digit
> -- 3, 3.1, 3.14, 3.141,...
> 
> He has numerical and ascii order, and still plenty of versions to go
> (not that he releases often,   he's now at 3.141592)

Hmm...I seem to remember a numerical constant that started with 1.85, 
but it escapes me now. How bout log(71) = 1.8573325? :) Next version of 
Ruby to be 1.8.57?

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