Future of Yum

[Horst H. von Brand]

seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:52 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > The next generation of yum can be found at http://www.yum4.org
> > And for those who want the future right now: http://www.yum5.org.
> > 
> > If you think the content is too boring try using whois.
> > 
> 
> Florian,
>  That is hilarious. Thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> I was thinking from here on out we should just do squares for version
> number increases:
> 
> yum 3 -> yum 9 -> yum 81 -> yum 6561 -> yum 43046721 -> yum
> 1853020188851841

Why not using the (La)TeX idea of an irrational number, adding a digit
each round? sqrt(11) = 3.316624... would do. So the next one would be
3.3, then 3.31, 3.316, ...

[Sadly, the "nice" numbers \pi, e, \phi are too small now...]
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