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Pithon (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] JubJubBird@sh.itjust.works 79 points 4 months ago

It's not 3.14.1 yet

[-] probable_possum@leminal.space 55 points 4 months ago

It would be fun if they would never reach 3.15. Because of the pi joke. But semantic versioning has a say in this, too. Sadly.

[-] CautiousCharacter@awful.systems 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is what Donald Knuth is doing with TeX :)

Wikipedia:

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.

[-] Flipper@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

There is also the mathfont of Tex, which slowly converges to e.

[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I would be childish and stubborn enough to actually do that.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Technically should be 3.14.2, or even 3.14.16. On account of how quoting something to a limited number of significant figures works.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Quick, someone report a bug!

[-] Cevilia 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Today I learned Pi is exactly 3.140

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

All future versions of Python should just append digits of pi; semantic versioning be damned

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

you can actually call it from command line in this release:

$ 𝜋thon --version

Python 3.14.0

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/125035

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 4 months ago

This is why we can have nice things

[-] molten@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I'm so fucking happy to be seeing this meme without a racist context. Maybe I troll the wrong corners of the internet but all I see this captioned with other places is zero effort racist jokes.