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	Donald Knuth - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Knuth is best known as the author of the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field.
		Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures." In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of MAD magazine #26, and named the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry".
		Knuth's first "mathematical" article was a short paper submitted to a "sciencetalent search" contest for high-school seniors in 1955, and published in 1960,in which he discussed number systems where the radix was negative.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Knuth (1628 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> nl:TeX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Despite his desire to keep the program stable, Knuth realised that 128 different characters for the text input were not enough to accommodate foreign languages; the main change in version 3.0 of TeX is thus the ability to work with 8-bits inputs, allowing 256 different characters in the text input.
		Knuth has kept a very detailed log of all the bugs he has corrected and changes he has made in the program since 1982; as of 2005, the list contains 419 entries, not including the version modification that should be done after his death as the final change in TeX.
		Knuth explained in a jest that he chose the dollar sign to indicate the beginning and end of mathematical mode in plain TeX because typesetting mathematics was traditionally supposed to be expensive.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/nl:TeX (4195 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> vi:TeX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When Steele returned to MIT that fall, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under the ITS operating system.
		Even though Donald Knuth himself has suggested a few areas in which TeX could have been improved, he indicated that he firmly believes that having an unchanged system that will produce the same output now and in the future is more important than introducing new features.
		For example, the spacing for Knuth's Computer Modern fonts has been precisely fine-tuned over the years and is now frozen, but when other fonts, such as AMS Euler, were used by Knuth for the first time, new spacing parameters had to be defined.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/vi:TeX (4195 words)

	TrueTeX Software -- Donald Knuth's Reward Check (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Donald Knuth's wit, humility, and mastery of technology are nowhere better exhibited than in his recognition of those persons who discover errors in his programs.
		The then-current reward of $2^{15}$ cents ($327.68, arbitrarily declared the maximum) was arbitrarily scaled down to $2^8$ cents.
		In 2002, Knuth stated at an AMS-sponsored lecture that, "There has been no error reported in TeX since 1994 or 1995," and that he would not consider the evaluation of new reports until about 2003.
	truetex.com /knuthchk.htm (677 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Knuth reward check
		Donald Knuth, in the preface of each of his books, and also on his website, offers to cheerfully pay a reward of $2.56 to the first finder of each error, whether it be technical, typographical, or historical.
		As of October, 2001, Knuth reports having written more than 2,000 such checks, with an average value exceeding $8 per check [2].
		Some reward checks include interest compounded continuously [7].
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Knuth_reward_check (456 words)

	Reward - Hilton HHonors \| HHonors Landing Page
		Reward travel (the last flight) is subject to service charges.
		Reward is the best-selling multi-level English course for adults.
		These reward checks have been described as "among computerdom's most prized trophies".
	wayget.com /?q=reward (410 words)

	Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers. Ch.2 Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science/Webliography
		As usual, I will gratefully pay a reward of $2.56 to the first person who reports anything that is technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect.
		SCPD - Donald E. Knuth The Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) is posting “Computer Musings,” lectures given by renowned Professor Donald E. Knuth, Stanford University’s Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming.
		Donald Knuth in St.Petersburg - the picture of Donald E. Knuth while filling in the registration form in May 1994 at the St. Petersburg University.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Knuth/webliography.shtml (5050 words)

	Rewarding
		''"among computerdom's most prized trophies"'' Donald Knuth, in the preface of each of his books, and also on his website, offers to cheerfully pay a reward of $2.56 to the first finder of each error, whether it be technical, typographical, or historical.
		As of October, 2001, Knuth reports having written more than 2,000 such checks, with an average value exceeding $8 per check http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf.
		The "History of TeX" explains that "Knuth's name is so valued that very few of his checks — even the largest ones — are actually cashed, but instead framed." http://www.tug.org/whatis.html The reward for coding errors found in Knuth's T
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/73/rewarding.html (458 words)

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		Knuth's original default format, which adds about 600 commands, is Plain TeX (available from CTAN).
		In comparison to manual typesetting, the problem of justification is easy to solve with a digital system such as TeX, which, provided that good points for line breaking have been defined, can automatically spread the spaces between words to fill in the line.
		LyX is a “What You See is What You Mean” document processor which runs on a variety of platforms including Linux, Windows (98, 2000 or later) or Mac OS X (using a non-native Qt front-end).
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=TeX (4194 words)

	Museum: TeX, Knuth, Lamport, etc.
		Annoucement of TeX 3.14159 and of METAFONT 2.71 (D. Knuth, 8 March 1995)
		Knuth Wins Kyoto Prize in 1996 (local copy of Stanford Today issue)
		An interview with Donald Knuth about the new edition of "The art of computer programming" (local copy)
	tex.loria.fr /english/historique.html (189 words)

	Informat.io on Knuth Reward Check
		In the preface of each of his books and on his website, computer scientist Donald Knuth offers to cheerfully pay a reward of "one hexadecimal dollar" to the first finder of each error, whether it be technical, typographical, or historical.
		X and METAFONT programs (as distinguished from errors in Knuth's books) followed an audacious scheme inspired by the Wheat and Chessboard Problem [4].
		Some reward checks include interest compounded continuously (PostScript file) and [8].
	www.informat.io /?title=knuth-reward-check (351 words)

	Andrew - CSEP590TU
		One of these bold few was Dr. Donald Knuth author of (amongst other things) the TeX typesetting software.
		Knuth said in the preface to his book TeX: The Program that he “believe[s] that the final bug in TeX was discovered and removed on November 27, 1985.” And yet bugs were still being uncovered—though very infrequently—ten years later.15 It is impossible to completely test any reasonably complex system.
		Kinch, Richard K. “An example of Donald Knuth’s Reward Check” 20 Nov. 2004
	cubist.cs.washington.edu /CSEP590TU-wiki/index.php?title=Andrew&printable=yes (1821 words)

	Knuth Reward Check (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Donald Ervin Knuth, (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University.
		X typesetting system and of the METAFONT font design system, and pioneered the concept of literate programming.
		Knuth pays a finder's fee of $2.56 for any typos/mistakes discovered in his books, because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar".
	www.joshwakefield.com /knuth (134 words)

	Search the Internet - InternetDJ.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Search CTAN for a file or search the TeX catalogue by Graham Williams for a keyword.
		Donald Knuth's Reward Check - - An example of a reward check by DEK and how to get one.
		Knuth: Message about TeX Fonts - - Important message to all users of TeX.
	www.internetdj.com /search/search.php?browse=/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX (364 words)

	Amit Singh: Reward Check from Professor Knuth
		Therefore I will cheerfully pay $2.56 to the first finder of each technical, typographical, or historical error.
		As quoted above from the preface to The Art of Computer Programming, one stands a chance of getting a reward check from Professor Knuth, given the right MIX of alertness, luck, and circumstances in general.
		Dr Knuth was kind enough to send me one for chancing upon a discrepancy.
	www.kernelthread.com /miscellaneous/dek.html (131 words)

	PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:TEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Don Knuth's Home Page - Without him there would be no TeX.
		Donald Knuth's Reward Check - An example of a reward check by DEK and how to get one.
		LaTeX / Emacs integration - How to install/update an integrated LaTeX/Emacs system on a PC with Windows.
	www.phs2.net /cwi/L3/o3393i.htm (1256 words)

	Reward - Reward for the Hereditary Elite . . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Potential reward doubles as BSA steps up fight against software piracy The BSA is now offering a reward of up to £20000, twice the existing limit of
		Engage on a journey into the world of the truly bizarre.
		I hear success stories everyday about how My Reward Board has improved family life.
	nanbeihuo.com /?q=reward (219 words)

	Omniseek: /Computing /Software /Typesetting /TeX /
		The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is a set of fully-mirrored ftp sites providing the most complete, up-to-date TeX-related software possible.
		The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes, to provide an organization for those who have an interest in systems for text typesetting and font design, and are users of TeX and Metafont, Donald Knuth's revolutiona
		This project, inaugurated under the ægis of the German TeX-Speaking User Group DANTE e.V. at its Hamburg meeting in 1992, was finally set in motion by a grant of DM 30 000 from DANTE during early 1998.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{23413} (372 words)

	TrueTeX Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Outlines [PDF file, 310 KB] [ZIP'ped TeX DVI files, 190 KB] [ZIP'ped PostScript file, 202 KB], a popular and award-winning paper presented at the 1995 TeX Users Group Annual Conference, St Petersburg, Florida, USA.
		[ZIP archive], an unhinted Type 1 font converted from Knuth's METAFONT sources by MetaFog.
		An example of Donald Knuth's reward check in payment for an error discovered in TeX and METAFONT.
	truetex.com (733 words)

	Amit Singh
		Created my 100th implementation of The Towers Of Hanoi.
		Received a reward check for $2.56 from Professor Donald Knuth.
		Updated Hanoimania with Towers of Hanoi using ICMP echo (ping).
	www.kernelthread.com (794 words)

	TeX: Typesetting at Canadian Content
		Additional Information: TeX is a typesetting system by Donald Knuth which allows one to create sophisticated documents containing mathematics.
		It supports the creation of complex macros to handle any common tasks.
		Contains manual and source code for Ant which is a typesetting system similar to TeX written in Objective Caml.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX (895 words)

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