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Re:Linux 5.0-rc1 by irq on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:54PM (#18842641)
OK so Linus, like most, has 10 fingers and 10 toes: totaling 20.. Yet 4.21 was already assigned. What was the last thing he counted on? Guesses below.
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Re:Linux 5.0-rc1 by ianai on Sunday January 06, 2019 @11:46PM (#18842826)
Actually it’s enough to know that you’re beyond all appendages. Ie one plus all fingers+toes.
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Re:Linux 5.0-rc1 by sigstoat on Sunday January 06, 2019 @11:21PM (#18842751)
whatever it was, he was using a lot of it back for the 1.3 series, which made it up to 1.3.100 at least.
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Re:Linux 5.0-rc1 by andrewshadura on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:08AM (#18843596)
I believe most people, Linus included, have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, making it 10 digits in total.
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Re:Linux 5.0-rc1 by tsukikage on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:27AM (#18843903)
...but you can count to 256 on 8 fingers...
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