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TeX's version number will converge to pi ahead of schedule?



I think announcement the Pi-version number of Tex is the right guess. From the Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX ) that is when Tex freezes and no more bug fixes are allowed (every behavior from that point on is a required backwards compatible feature).


Knuth has proven pi is not transcendental and is changing the versioning to use the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant


More earthshaking: TeX's version number will never converge to pi?


Knuth rewrote himself in MMIX. Fully-documented MMIX.




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