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Golden Versioning

randical is versioned under a scheme I call "goldver", as an homage to the vastly inferior semver.

What does "goldver" mean?

When projects are versioned with goldver, the first version is "1". Note that it is not "1.0", or, "1.0-prealpha-release-preview", or anything nonsensical like that. As new versions are released, decimals from phi, the Golden Ratio, are appended after an initial decimal point. So the second released version will be "1.6", the third would be "1.61", etc., and on until perfection is asymptotically approached as the number of released versions goes to infinity.

Wait, didn't Donald Knuth do this?

No! He uses pi for TeX and e for MetaFont, obviously COMPLETELY different.

Ok.

Cool.

What version is randical now?

Canonically, see the VERSION file. Heretically, now that there have been at least three releases, the version string in the Cargo.toml file will always be of the form "1.6.x", where x is at least one digit long, starting with "1". Each subsequent release will append the next digit of phi to x. The number of releases can be calculated by counting the number of digits in x and adding 2 to that.