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Just a guess: It's a joke, referring to the fact that most people who win the $2.56 checks from Knuth don't cash them in.
by gweinberg 9y ago
Just a guess: It's a joke, referring to the fact that most people who win the $2.56 checks from Knuth don't cash them in.
- vmarquet 9y agoKnuth's checks have their own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
- eatbitseveryday 9y agoFrom the Wiki page: > Very few of these checks were actually cashed, even the largest ones. More often they have been framed and kept as "bragging rights".[4][5] Cashing a check only removes it from your possession if you hand it in to do so. Banks these days need only a physical scan of a check, e.g. via mobile phone deposit. Why not do both? There's nothing wrong with taking payment for your efforts.
- colejohnson66 9y agoAFAIK, after deposit, you're supposed to void a check by either destroying it or writing something on the front of it (such as "void")
- dom0 9y ago(void*)
- mistaken 9y agohttp://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
- Ar-Curunir 9y agoThe Knuth prize is different from the reward given for finding a bug in TeX.