Catalyst 3.10 newer than 3.9 ?

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Phoenix AG said:
Wtf are you talking about?
The decimal system is base 10. 3.9 sure looks like decimal to me.
Hexedecimal is base 16. Binary is base 2.
What is base 12?
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Base 12 has digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B.

Here's a bit of trivia for you. I bet you didn't know you use the
sexagesimal system all the time! No, it's not Paris Hilton's latest tape.
;-) It's base 60 and measurement of time is based on it. (60
seconds/minute, 60 minutes/hour)

Tom Lake
 
Phoenix AG said:
Wtf are you talking about?
The decimal system is base 10. 3.9 sure looks like decimal to me.
Hexedecimal is base 16. Binary is base 2.
What is base 12?
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Base 12 is a number system with 12 digits.
 
Tom Lake said:
Base 12 has digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B.

Here's a bit of trivia for you. I bet you didn't know you use the
sexagesimal system all the time! No, it's not Paris Hilton's latest tape.
;-) It's base 60 and measurement of time is based on it. (60
seconds/minute, 60 minutes/hour)
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Only partially. Using this system fully would mean 60 hour/day, 60
days/year, etc.
 
Daniel Ganek said:
This used to confuse me too. But in the computer biz version numbers
are NOT decimals even though they contain decimal points. I've worked
for a number of companies and used a lot of SW and practically everyone
uses an integer notation with a decimal point as a separator.

Thus, you'll see 3.0 3.1 ... 3.9, 3.10, 3.11

minor versions will add another level; e.g

3.9.1, 3.9.2 ..... 3.9.9, 3.9.10

Think of it as outline numbering if that's easier to understand.
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If that is the way your companies did it, then they did it wrong. Version
numbers are decimal based.
 
Who said they have to be decimal based. Decimal based only makes sense to me
and you because we use the decimal or 10 base system all the time. Maybe the
"A and B releases" really mean sub-versions 11 and 12. There could be some
truth to that base 12 version system after all!

Imagine... Alpha, Beta... do we think we're Greek gods or what?

Ciao, Rick
 
Tom said:
Base 12 has digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B.
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Merely representation.
Here's a bit of trivia for you. I bet you didn't know you use the
sexagesimal system all the time! No, it's not Paris Hilton's latest tape.
;-) It's base 60 and measurement of time is based on it. (60
seconds/minute, 60 minutes/hour)
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Yeah I did - AFAIK (and if I'm right, you won't beleive I didn't just check
it out) it was what the babylonians used, and they "invented" time.

Ben
 
ATI said they were. Check out the forums on rage3d.com sometime.
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I find three threads containing "3.10". In none of them is there any
statement from ATI, official or otherwise, that would support your
contention. There is a statement that the hotfix driver is "an early
version of 3.10" and there is another thread in which it was determined
that the hot fix does not address a specific bug that supposedly _will_
be fixed in 3.10, so your contention that the only difference between
the hotfix and 3.10 is WHQL would appear to be somewhat in error. Or
perhaps you are just engaging in wishful thinking.

And in the future, if there is a link to support your argument then
please provide it, I rather resent wasting my time chasing down your
rumor.
 
Base 12 has digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B.
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Thank you DP and Tom.
I know how, logically, what you have written above is base 12.
What I am talking about is this. Have you actually used the base 12
number system to do anything in your life?
Have you seen it being implemented by any company?

The original poster said he was joking. Let's all forget the base 12
now.


***
....the Phoenix shall rise...
 
If that is the way your companies did it, then they did it wrong. Version
numbers are decimal based.
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Not necessarily... even libraries use the "Dewey decimal-system" where
decimal point functions as a separator and numbers (and letters) beyond that
have specific non-numerical meanings. So why not something similar here? Who
cares anyway?
 
Vellu said:
Not necessarily... even libraries use the "Dewey decimal-system" where
decimal point functions as a separator and numbers (and letters) beyond that
have specific non-numerical meanings. So why not something similar here? Who
cares anyway?
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But isn't the dewey decimal system ordered numerically?
 
I rather resent people who don't know what they are talking about, yet
they act like they know everything. :P

Since you searched the wrong thing, I will be nice and post the topic.
"ATI Display Driver 6.14.10.6404 (INFO-BASE# 4291 for Call of Duty)"
If you find that, read the 2nd reply, and what do you know, I was
correct in my information that these hotfixed 3.9s ARE going to be the
3.10s with WHQL status.

Hope that puts your at ease, although I doubt it.

1st poster -> "[snip] P.S. Everyone knows this is 7.96 code base;
anyone wanna bet the Cat3.10 in Dec. is gonna be a WHQL version of
this exact package "

ATI response -> "Hope nobody takes that bet because you are correct.
We just need to finish testing it and get Microsoft certification"
 
DP said:
If that is the way your companies did it, then they did it wrong. Version
numbers are decimal based.
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Oh, I see you're right and DEC, HP, RH, IBM, etc are all wrong.

(What about 3.2.10? I've never seen a decimal number with TWO decimal points)

/dan
 
Good question. Personally, I think the next version should be called 3.9x
or 4.0. If 3.10 were to be the next version, it implies that the previous
versions are numbered 3.01 through 3.09.
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Not really. Version numbers are not exactly decimal numbers. 3.9 does in
fact mean Version 3, subversion (or revision) 9, and 3.10 means Version 3,
subversion/revision 10.
 
Dirk Dreidoppel said:
Not really. Version numbers are not exactly decimal numbers. 3.9 does in
fact mean Version 3, subversion (or revision) 9, and 3.10 means Version 3,
subversion/revision 10.
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The point divides two octets.
 
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