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Note that it's no longer an actual check --- instead one gets a certificate of deposit at The Bank of San Seriffe: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/b
by WillAdams 2y ago
Note that it's no longer an actual check --- instead one gets a certificate of deposit at The Bank of San Seriffe:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
(I got a physical check for $2.88 for a typo and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_ --- need to find another so I can get an account....)
If that was not included in your geography lessons see:
https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-semicolonial-island-nation-of-san-serriffe/ https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-semicolonial-island-nation-...
- shagie 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check And one of my favorite quotes on the subject: > Intelligence: Finding an error in a Knuth text. Stupidity: Cashing that $2.56 check you got. > — Seen in a Slashdot signature, quoted by Tess O'Connor ( https://www.stgray.com/quotes/programmingquotes.html https://www.stgray.com/quotes/programmingquotes.html )
- WillAdams 2y agoSome of the checks added up to quite a bit more than that (if there's ever another error check for TeX it will be for $327.68), and one notable at a TeX User's Group conference stated that he had cashed a check for $40.96 and was grateful to DEK for it, since it put food on his table when he was a poor starving grad student.