Come on, guys, this is a serious topic.
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
On 20 Nov 2008, at 17:29, Dario Laera wrote:
Il giorno 19/nov/08, alle ore 09:37, Jeremias Maerki ha scritto:
How about calling the next version 2.009 (to be released in early
2009).
<joking>
You may choose to compose a strange number like Knuth is doing with
$\pi$ for \TeX versioning. What about $\sqrt{2}$? :P
</joking>
Now there's an idea... Doing something with Euler's famous formula,
perhaps:
\$-(e^(i*pi))\$ (=1.0) :-)
Just sticking to an 'ordinary' version number seems to dull anyway. I
don't mind if anyone is confused, quite on the contrary.
The least we can do is to use the golden number [1]:
(1 + sqrt(5))/2 ≈ 1.6180339887
Incidentally this number has been used in book design for many years
[2]. Actually...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Book_design
Vincent
