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> It is natural to ask which book of the Bible contains relevant financial advice in its Chapter 11, and it is just as natural to focus on the First, Second, an
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
> It is natural to ask which book of the Bible contains relevant financial advice in its Chapter 11, and it is just as natural to focus on the First, Second, and Third Book of Buffett. However, Knuth's text itself shows that these three tractates were not yet canonical in this period. No other Biblical book is quite satisfactory, and the meaning of the story remains unclear.
Isn’t “Chapter 11” as in “File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy” the financial advice?
- rhaps0dy 3y agoYes, that’s the joke
- verisimi 3y ago> However, Knuth's text itself shows that these three tractates were not yet canonical in this period. No other Biblical book is quite satisfactory, and the meaning of the story remains unclear. That's the Knuth, the whole Knuth and nothing but the Knuth.
- svat 3y agoThe fact that "Chapter 11" refers to bankruptcy is the joke in the quoted joke. Calling this joke a "poorly-understood incident from that period", referring to Warren Buffett's books as books of the Bible, and saying that "the meaning of the story remains unclear" is the joke on this satirical page, in keeping with the premise of being written in 20002 when details of the first few millennia are ancient history and neither "dollars" nor 20th/21st-century US laws are remembered.