On: Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP

[jgrahamc]

I have a Knuth cheque from back when he sent out real cheques. Or at least I did; for some reason I decided that cashing it was a good idea and so I have his note back to me and a photocopy of the actual cheque.

[tkhattra → jgrahamc]

I have one for $7.68 ($2.56*3). Alas, it was for some minor typos and grammatical errors in SPOCS [1], not "real" math errors in TAOCP. Never plan on cashing it in though. And I can't remember where I stashed it, so there's that too... :)

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html

[cinntaile → jgrahamc]

lol I'm a bit curious about the thought process that led you to decide you wanted to cash it.

[secondcoming → jgrahamc]

Aren't the cheques for $2.56?

[hinkley → secondcoming]

Why am I just now having this thought?

He should make them $5.12 so it’s a check for 1,000,000,000 cents, instead of 100,000,000.

[rdlw → hinkley]

They're hexadecimal; 100 cents in a dollar.

[belter → jgrahamc]

What error did you find?