[OT] Knuth's rewards [Was: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme]

[John Wilson]

David Mertz wrote:
> Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote previously:
>>> Could you afford to pay $327.68 for every bug found in your glorious
>>> software?
>> Anyone know how Knuth arrives at the amounts he offers ?
>> (He also offers $2.56 for errors in his books.)
>
> Surely you recognize powers of two? :-).
>
> The system is really the ultimate in chutzpah.  In takes VERY few
> errors before he goes broke... or, say, if the US treasury were at his
> disposal, *IT* goes broke.

I don't think it costs Knuth anything. I was at a talk he gave some years
ago when he said that nobody ever cashed the checks. Everbody has them
framed!

John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
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