[OT] Knuth's rewards

[Nick Efford]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
> Funny, 32768 and 256 are numbers which ring very loud bells with me
> ... but inserting a "." in the middle completely suppressed this
> otherwise immediate reaction.

> OK, so they are powers of 2, in cents ... anyone know any further
> motivation ?

A fascination with numbers / mathematics?

The version number of TeX is converging to pi, rather than
incrementing in the usual fashion.  Currently it is at 3.14159,
I believe...


Nick