Knuth Bugs
Bill Kelly
bllklly at uwmacc.UUCP
Thu Sep 19 23:46:26 AEST 1985
> What happened to the old days when people would pay you to find
> bugs? Remember Knuth Vol 1, 2, & 3? Didn't Knuth offer $0.25
> per error?
He still does! He offered $2.56 for anyone finding errors in preprints of
The TeXbook, and I think $5.12 for anyone finding a bug in TeX. To answer
someone else's question, yes, the only person I know who got one of these
checks did frame it!
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