Knuth Reward Check

 (thomas-huehn.com)

38 points | by Curiositry 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • blatherard 1 hour ago
    Images weren't loading for me, here's a Wayback Machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20260412143311/https://www.thoma...
  • CurtHagenlocher 1 hour ago
    The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.
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    • utopcell 23 minutes ago
      If that's your biggest shame then you must have lived a good life.
  • assumed_throwaw 54 minutes ago
    I'm surprised we haven't heard of anyone running an AI on Donald Knuth's books to generate the largest collection of checks in existence...
  • largbae 54 minutes ago
    What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.
  • ape4 1 hour ago
    The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
  • janvdberg 1 hour ago
    Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833

    (Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)

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    • utopcell 21 minutes ago
      I bet the mailing cost was more than 0x$2.00 for Knuth.
  • jacquesm 51 minutes ago
    Interesting how no other writers in the field seem to have adopted Knuths' strategy to get their books proofread to the point of being bullet proof.
  • mococa 1 hour ago
    I know a guy (ricbit) who have 4 or more
  • jdw64 1 hour ago
    But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?
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