On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:03:04 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: > >FWIW, >Donald Knuth had a similar offer in place for his valued tomes, in the >70's when I was in college. >He'd send a check for any error that you were the first to find. No one >would cash the check because we'd rather have the "badge of honor". >Probably made it difficult to keep the checking account balanced. > Reportedly, Picasso paid for small purchases with checks whenever possible. Many went uncashed.
Similar legends about Dali abound. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
