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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Knuth Bugs
Message-ID: <1474@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 09:46:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 09:46:26 1985
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Reply-To: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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> 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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