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Slightly OT, but this whole article is about nitpicks so I don’t feel guilty... Shouldn’t the dollar sign be before the 0x?

• userbinator 7y ago
  That's apparently how Knuth writes it, so feel free to ask him. Maybe you'll get a reward too? ;-)
• manningthegoose 7y ago
  Not really, since a “hexadecimal dollar” is really just a fictional measurement of money that Knuth has created (which he designates with symbol 0x$). I guess if it were $0x3.00, you could interpret the quantity to be regular dollars in hex form, which would just evaluate to 3, instead of the 7.68 Knuth is actually offering
• LodeOfCode 7y ago
  0x$ = 0x100¢ = 2.56$?
• so33 7y ago
  The check is issued by the “Bank of San Serriffe” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe). Perhaps they have different typographical conventions...