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Don't sweat it. Knuth now writes checks for brownie points, drawn on a fictional bank. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html http://www-cs-facu
by njl 17y ago
Don't sweat it. Knuth now writes checks for brownie points, drawn on a fictional bank.
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
- TriinT 17y ago"Instead of writing personal checks, I'll write personal certificates of deposit to each awardee's account at the Bank of San Serriffe, which is an offshore institution that has branches in Blefuscu and Elbonia on the planet Pincus." Dr. Knuth has a sense of humor...
- ori_b 17y agoMyself, I liked turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached. (from the same page)
- michael_dorfman 17y agoThey look just like regular checks, though, to the casual viewer. I'd scan mine and post it, but the check is at the office and the scanner is at home...