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How Debian packages a number

Posted May 11, 2007 4:20 UTC (Fri) by dw (subscriber, #12017)
In reply to: How Debian packages a number by felixfix
Parent article: How Debian packages a number

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

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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!