Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

Tue Jan 22 19:13:23 UTC 2013

On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote

>> The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently
>> f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions
>> ahead of f17 versions so that updates will work better.
..
> Presumably as new kernels come out the base number will change to
> reflect the currently supported versions of Fedora. So that for the
> 3.9 kernel, f18  will probably be 1xx and f19 2xx.

That's a pretty arcane scheme. Would it work to use 17xx, 18xx and 19xx 
instead?