Friday, October 20, 2006
Donald Knuth offers monetary awards to people who find and report a bug in his TeX typesetting system. The award per bug started at $2.56 and doubled every year until it was frozen at its current value of $327.68. This has not made Knuth poor, however, as there have been very few bugs claimed. In addition, a person will usually frame a check proving he found a bug in TeX instead of cashing it.
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