Why do different versions of Silverlight assemblies have the same version number?

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Why do different versions of Silverlight assemblies have the same version number?

Location: ...\Silverlight\v3.0\System.Core.dll 
Name: System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e 

Location: ...\Silverlight\v4.0\System.Core.dll 
Name: System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e 

Location: ...\Silverlight\v4.0\Profile\WindowsPhone\System.Core.dll 
Name: System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e 

While standard .net has different version numbers

Location: ...\Framework\v4.0.30319\System.dll 
Name: System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 

Location: ...\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll 
Name: System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 

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