On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:51:24PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a mathematician who knows > > what to do with a number that reads 0.0.9, either. > > Well, I have found one. Myself. You just have to interpret the part > after the second point as the integer part of an infinitesimal: > > Let ε be an infinitesimal, that is a strictly positive number > (that is ε > 0) smaller than any strictly positive real number > (that is ∀ n ∈ ℕ, n>0 implies ε < 1/n ). > > > Then the version number x.y.z is interpreted as: > > x.y + z * ε > > (And a.b.c.d is interpreted as a.b + c.d * ε) [...]
It would appear you've forgotten to change the To: line to something more appropriate, though. Done with this message ;-) -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to was the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
