[HN Gopher] Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
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       Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-07-29 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | biorach wrote:
       | let's just get some perspective here
       | 
       | HE'S 84 YEARS OLD AND STILL DEFINING COMPUTER SCIENCE
        
       | baltimore wrote:
       | Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be
       | on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom
       | of things.
       | 
       | Source: "Knuth versus Email" https://www-cs-
       | faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | as a side note, publishing errata and pages is such a lovely
       | practice and i wish it was more widely applicable and used.
        
       | macintux wrote:
       | I had not realized there's now an estimated release date for 4B
       | of this October. I think it may finally be time (after 4B) to buy
       | the box set and leave it lying around in hopes that by 2030 I'll
       | get up the courage to start it.
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | Worth noting: there's currently a discount available via a code
         | displayed prominently on the Pearson site, so preordering it
         | came to about $210 USD for me.
         | 
         | https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-v...
        
       | svat wrote:
       | Related tweet from Russ Cox:
       | https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1483899960684863493
       | 
       | > Knuth is making backwards incompatible changes to fix bugs in
       | something he wrote 54 years ago (TAOCP volume 1, 1968)!
       | 
       | And mine:
       | 
       | Apart from the care Knuth takes, what's remarkable is that he has
       | basically put out a permanent invitation to a DDoS on his time
       | and attention--everyone in the world is invited to contact him
       | about every word he has ever written--and somehow still continues
       | to produce new material.
       | 
       | From Wilf's toast/roast of Knuth
       | (https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/dek.pdf): "[...]your
       | letter will be placed on a stack that already has 5,379 letters
       | that reached him before yours did,[...] while he completes his
       | latest additions to 47 new manuscripts and 311 revisions of
       | already existing books."
        
         | tambourine_man wrote:
         | I think the secret is he uses letters.
         | 
         | Try that invitation to a DDoS on his life with Twitter or
         | email.
         | 
         | If you're willing to post a physical letter, chances of the
         | content being worth reading are a lot higher.
        
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