Re: Mame32 0.99 and Mame 0.99 Source is out

Olivier Galibert wrote: 
On 2005-08-06, Jeff-B <mameburner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I understand the whole history and reasoning behind using version 0.100 and 1.00, but where I grew up, we learned in math class that 0.10 = 0.100. I don't care about reaching 1.00 or anything like that, but calling it 0.100 is just reusing a version number that has already been assigned to a much older version of MAME. 


If you had stayed in school a year or two more you would have learned
the difference between a decimal point and a separator.

OG.


....and if you had read my post more carefully, Olivier, you would have known that "I don't care".

Some funny observations on numbering/naming schemes:

The traditional naming conventions for batteries uses letters; the letter loosely correlates with the size of the battery. D's are big, C's are smaller, etc. Back in the days of vaccuum tube radios, "B" and "A" batteries were prevalent and followed suit in the naming scheme. But when batteries smaller than the "A" were developed, engineers were stumped... what to call them? How about "AA"? Sounded good until an even smaller battery was developed. How about "AAA"? Eventually the flaw in the naming scheme cause it to be scrapped altogether.

Mailing envelope sizes in the US are a similar example. The smaller the number, the smaller the envelope. Some short-sighted person figured that "8.5 x 11" would be the smallest envelope size ever creted, so they called it size "1". But then then companies started producing "6 x 9" envelopes. Hmmmm... what to call them. How about size "0"? Then came even smaller "5 x 7" envelopes. Hmmm... OK, how about calling them size "00"?

Decimal point. Seperator. Dot. Period. Who cares?
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