7 to X probably wouldn't count as I'd say X isn't used in the sense of number ten. (Like Super Mario 64 isn't an Un Installement because Super Mario 63 doesn't exist) If a software skipped from number (es.) 3.0 to 5.0, it'd certainly be such a case, cause it'd mean that a whole version was created to be completely tossed over for a number of reasons. (such as a new OS coming out months before their release would be ready, making the old version unadaptable and unprofitable) On the other hand, what about going from 3.2 to 3.4? would it be uninstallement as well? What if it goes from 3.2 to 3.5? What if there's a lot of major secondary versions, so it goes from, like 3.45 to 3.47? or 3.48? If the first or third are answered as a yes, then we could theorically extend it to software that goes from 2.6.3 to 2.6.7 etc...
So, if those exist, maybe we could put just a single note saying that software sometimes does that, and then referencing briefly of software who did it with their main version number?
Real Life An accidental example exists in papal history: Owing to various misconceptions and transcription errors, there has never been a Pope John XX. The Pope who would have borne that number skipped straight to John XXI when choosing his papal name.
I doubt that explanation. I invoke Occam's Razor. 1559ish, Pope made an infallible doctrine that Pope Joan never happened, so spin doctors invented this legend about the numbers being wrong.
What if there were no hypothetical questions? There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand Binary and those who don't.
I was going to ask if maybe the numerical part of Windows could be an example of the trope, as it went from 95, to 98, to 2000 — then "ME" and "XP" and "Vista", to come back to numbers starting with 7 and skipping the 9.
(Even before that, the first Window is registered as 1.01 and move onwards from that yet even then they skipped a couple of numbers, like when they re-started from 2.03 (with no .01 or .02), then moving from that to 2.10. And there's no 3.3 or 3.4 that we know of, even if there are numbers for everything before and after.)
We can assume there were versions we never came to know (?) but still. It seems to fit the description for Un-Installment given.
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Among the Uninstallements that was later made there was
- Star Wars episodes I-III
IIRC, Star Wars episodes IV, V and VI were named I, II and III before the prequel were created, thus it doesn't count as uninstallment. Is it how I remember, or I'm wrong?
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Empire was always Episode V, and Return was always Episode VI.
The first movie is slightly trickier: It was originally released as just Star Wars, without any episode number or subtitle, because they thought it might flop and be the only Star Wars movie ever made. After Episode V was greenlit, it was renamed Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. At no point was it Episode I.
George Lucas has always maintained that he planned all nine (yes, nine) episodes originally, but started with Episode IV because that one worked best as a stand-alone film.
Do computer related version skips count? Like Quick Time 7 to X?
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