[HN Gopher] Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1 ___________________________________________________________________ Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1 Author : ColinWright Score : 42 points Date : 2022-07-29 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-29 23:00 UTC)