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How Debian packages a number

Posted May 10, 2007 4:53 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
Parent article: How Debian packages a number

I wonder who is 39 days late with this, Debian or our Grumpy Editor. But I like it :-)

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Posted May 10, 2007 9:36 UTC (Thu) by xav (subscriber, #18536) [Link]

Looking at the 1st-post's datestamp, it looks like Debian was a month late.

Well, wait .. did I say Debian was *only* a month late ?

How Debian packages a number

Posted May 11, 2007 4:20 UTC (Fri) by dw (subscriber, #12017) [Link]

39 days? This number dates back to at least February. :)

Number is eternal

Posted May 14, 2007 7:22 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

All that happened in February was that the attention of the technical public was inexorably drawn to its representation in hexadecimal.

The number has always existed -- look back at your old mathematics text books and check the definition of the set of natural numbers. It's there!