Dotted revno "algebra"

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:10:25PM -0400 I heard the voice of
John Yates, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I would like to see a discussion of this (Ben Finney's) perspective added
> to Matthew Fuller's Numbering Revisions page:

It's somewhat intentional that I gloss very quickly over the
derivation of the dotted numbers there, as what I considered the point
of the doc was more to talk about why they're dotted and what that
indicates, than to talk about how to use them in isolation to guess at
how the rev hooks in...


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