

Does this link work for you to see the comment? https://awful.systems/comment/9163259


Does this link work for you to see the comment? https://awful.systems/comment/9163259
This is what Donald Knuth is doing with TeX :)
Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653; it was last updated in 2021.


“If I’m learning this much from Baby’s First ABCs, imagine what a literature professor could do with it!”


The first democratic election in Taiwan was in 1996. Probably a major reason why the Taiwanese are so wary of Chinese influence is because most voters have actually lived through authoritarian rule.
Or Picard’s little theorem, which says that if an entire function misses two points (e.g. is never 0 or 1), then that function must be constant.