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- Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833
(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)
by janvdberg - I'm surprised we haven't heard of anyone running an AI on Donald Knuth's books to generate the largest collection of checks in existence...
- What a brilliant teaching technique, think of how many people studied his work for bounties that they would never cash.by largbae
- I wondered how you received a real check since Knuth has not been sending out real checks (as you have noted) for some time now, only to see that you explained it in the very first sentence and I had read over it, just like many people read over the error that you found in the first sentence of the book. Nice one! I wonder what the "Infinitely" was replaced with - probably not "Finitely" :)
I had received a check recently and wrote about it too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286258
by nk_kolja - It was a bit more than 25 years ago for me, check #790 for $2.88 DT 33, (143).
Really need to find another error or point of improvement so as to get the digital account --- I've been reading through TAoCP Vol. 4 Fascicle 7 on _Constraint Satisfaction_, but it's been slow going (though I did find out that it is intentional that he not list beginning of chapter quotes in the index).
by WillAdams - It's not a reward check, but Knuth read one of my articles and emailed me about it [0], which I found pretty cool.
- The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.by ape4
- The biggest shame of my life is that I had one of these and somehow managed to lose it.