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Re: Mathematica 8.0.1 for Mac $Version string?

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  • Subject: [mg117149] Re: Mathematica 8.0.1 for Mac $Version string?
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:14:46 -0500 (EST)

On 3/9/11 at 7:01 AM, jasonbrent at gmail.com (Jason Ledbetter) wrote:

>I received an email from Wolfram today about Mathematica 8.0.1
>release. After installing it, if I use Finder.app to browse to
>/Applications/Mathematica.app and use cmd-i to open the information
>/panel,
>it shows the version as: "Mathematica 8.0.1 [2063982] copyright
>1988-2011 Wolfram Research, Inc.".

>However, if I open the application and run $Version in a notebook,
>it says the version is 8.0.

>Is it normal for the point releases not to show up in the $Version
>string?

Yes.

8.0.1 is the version number and the release number. Look up
$VersionNumber and $ReleaseNumber in the documentation.



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