[saurik]

FWIW, I would have read "v." the same, as "v." is also an abbreviation--mostly used in legal documents and court cases--for versus.

[kazinator]

Looks like the versions count down toward zero. Pest v. 0xFF is an older article by several days.

[asciilifeform]

This is correct, and is described in the article ("Kelvin versioning".) The concept is not original to the author.