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I think a more successful reward system would be Don Knuth's payment program for TeX and Metafont, exponentially increasing hex dollars on checks so valuable th
by lsb 17y ago
I think a more successful reward system would be Don Knuth's payment program for TeX and Metafont, exponentially increasing hex dollars on checks so valuable that you'd never want to cash them.
- jrockway 17y agoCashing them is not an option anymore, as he only gives out fake checks now.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoEven the wikipedia entry for Knuth checks has an image of such a check with the full ABA and account number on the check, with only the most inconsequential data (to a forger) blurred out. It's sad that he had to make the change, but if I was doing something that resulted in the full data for my bank account being available on wikipedia and google image search (let alone thousands of CS cork-boards across the nation), I'd probably put a stop to it too.