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From: john@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix Version Names
Message-ID: <665773219.14817@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Feb 91 17:00:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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In <1991Feb4.202456.1271@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, Conway Yee writes:

> From what I have been reading, the successor to Minix 1.5.10 is 1.6.10
> (and now 1.6.11).  Whatever happened to 1.6.x where x is 1 to 9? Did
> I miss something?

Donald Knuth's version numbering scheme for TeX and Metafont arranges
that the numbers of successive releases of TeX approach pi more and
more closely (3., 3.1, 3.14 ...) and the numbers of Metafont approach
e more and more closely (2., 2.7, 2.71, 2.718 ...). May I suggest that
Andy T. is taking Minix towards the Golden ratio (1.61803389 ...)? :-)

(Yes, I have heard about 2.0. Perhaps the iterative method he is
using is unstable, and is diverging rather than converging. :-))

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