Is 3.10 a greater integer than 3.9? Call all the Math Exiles

Don't laugh, serious question. I love learning the math. Shouldn't 4.0 come after 3.9? I haven't played POE in a while, been having a blast with Wolcen, so I am a little confused here.

The only answer I can come up with is that 3.10 is greater than 3.1. But I am pretty sure from the math class that you can add as many zeros as you want after a decimal point and it does not change the value of an integer.

IIRC my theory is:


The reason I am not sure is because in AP Calculus I learned about "i" which is -1^1/2, used when taking the square root of a negative number, which before than I did not think was possible. Similarly recently I learned that 1 + 1 = 3. So I think maybe this probably has some similar logic. I'd love to learn some new mathematics.

My theorem to prove 1 + 1 = 3

1 = 1

41 – 40 = 61 – 60

16 + 25 – 40 = 36 + 25 – 60

4² + 5² – 2 * 4 * 5 = 6² + 5² – 2 * 6 * 5

(4 – 5)² = (6 – 5)²

4 – 5 = 6 – 5

4 = 6

2 = 3

1 + 1 = 3

Similarly I believe GGG may have accidentally (or purposely, I am not sure) proved 3.10 > 3.1. I don't know the theorem but I would guess 3 digits are more than 2.

Also if you are not good at the math then please dont post in this thread.Thank you all, looking forward to March 13th.

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The only answer I can come up with is that 3.10 is greater than 3.1. But I am pretty sure from the math class that you can add as many zeros as you want after a decimal point and it does not change the value of an integer.

Decimals are used differently in Software revision numbers then they are in actual math. They do not denote powers of 10 at all. You can even have multiple decimals in a revision number, something that never happens in math. 3.10 is indeed bigger then 3.1 for the same reason 10 is bigger then 1, the decimal is not mathematical.

YOur post makes as much sense as seeing Febuary 4th expressed as 2/4 and wondering why you're dividing the month by the day - the Slash isn't intended to denote division in that context, and when you see a US phone number, the parenthesis around the area code is not an order of operations indicator, and the dash between the first 3 and the last 4 digits is not an indication for subtraction.

If I tell you my phone numbers is 867-5309, I'm not saying my phone numbers is -4442. It's not a mathematical expression. Revision numbers are similar.

In this case the version number does not represent an integer (integers being whole numbers). It represents two separate numbers: 3 and 10 or 3 and 9. So no, in this case 3.1 does not equal 3.10.
(And yes, if you divide by 0 you can make all numbers the same number)

In software versioning the radix or decimalacts as a delimiter between the major and minor versions. This versioning is controlled internally. When enough changes have been made, they will jump from say 3.10 to 3.2. Another minor change would instead take them to 3.11. Also, if this number was an actual real number, I'd like to point out that it wouldn't be an integer because of the decimal. Integers are the set of countable numbers you learned about in gradeschool.

It's not a decimal point, so it can mean what ever they want it to mean.

You need to understand the difference between a nominal and a numeral.

Think about your phone number. Can you recite it as a number? Probably not. That's because it isn't a numeral... it's a nominal.

just replace the . with any other delineator in your head.

the first part, 3, is the main patch notation.
the second part, 10, is the subpatch.
the third part (currently 0) is the sub sub patch.

The poe patch system takes it even farther, ADDING LETTERS

is 3.9.2f even a number? what number has a 2nd decimal. the f, who the F knows???

so, it could very easily have been written 3-9-2f, 3/9/2f, 3¥9¥2f. its just there to give clarity as to the patch hierarchy. patch 3, subpatch 9, subpatch 2f.

It is an iterative designation, NOT A NUMBER.


however, this IS why people are hungup on "PoE 2 vs PoE 4.0". because we're on PoE 3.X, and have been iterating with that. PoE2 is an iteration of PoE current, there is a lot of new content, but there is a whole lot of old content too. So why is the new stuff going backward and being called PoE 2...?

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ivqancorp wrote:

Also if you are not good at the math then please dont post in this thread.

Perhaps you shouldn't have posted in this thread then, as anyone who is good at math knows what an integer is. ;)

Called Semantic Versioning...
https://semver.org/

obvious troll thread

this bothers you?

i wonder how poe 4 that is actually poe 2 will effect you.