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vitaly_repin
2009-11-26 , 16:47
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Originally Posted by
Andre Klapper
It's quite likely as I have not seen an application yet that was completely free of errors. ;-)
But there is one project which is very close to this target:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
The number of digits after the dot sign in its version number is equal to the number of bugs found during its lifetime.
So, the fun starts:
$ tex --version
TeX 3.1415926
Count it yourself :-)
Unfortunately, it is near to impossible to reach this target in the modern industrial software engineering. But all the sw. engineers shall not forget about this real example :-)
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