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In <CALLSEN.92Sep6214626@ganges.cs.uiuc.edu> callsen@cs.uiuc.edu (Christian J. Callsen) writes:


>tom writes:

>>dvips 5490, TeXview 3.0, and "Pi" TeX, i.e. Unix TeX 3.14 I believe.
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>I believe that Don Knuth as part of his will with TeX wrote that after
>his death, one (1!) alteration of TeX must be made: the version number
>bumped from whatever `approximation' of `pi' it has to a new version
>numberer `$\pi$' -- which then will be the final version of TeX.
>So we haven't quite reached TeX V$\pi$ yet.

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I've received 3 pieces of mail about this already.  Strange how little
things can cause a controversy :-)  First, I had not heard this amusing
story about Knuth (though it seems completely in character :-) and
had just made up the name "Pi TeX" --- $\pi$ \TeX --- myself.  Sorry
for the confusion on this crucial point.  Second, this jogged my memory
and makes me think that the version which actually comes wiht 3.0
is TeX 3.141 (i.e. a somewhat better approximation to the transcendental
wonder \pi) but I can't check this at the moment because I just moved
and my whole life, including the NeXT-TeX 3.0 manual (but, heaven be
praised, not my NeXT!) are in boxes.  I seem to remember that the
version of TeX is given on one of the first pages of the manual, so 
perhaps someone who has 3.0 already can say if we have 2 or 3 digit 
accuracy on Pi TeX???

best --- tom