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by lidavidm 472 days ago
It might be funny to use this as a software versioning scheme. ("What do you mean the next version after v3 is 20A?")
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Dividing by the square root of two with each iteration isn't any weirder than how Knuth does software versions.
But Knuth's shtick converges to a known quantity ... let me rephrase that, non-zero quantity ...