The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
> "These account balances reflect only the rewards for errors reported since the beginning of 2006. Many reward checks were issued during 1968--2005, too numerous to mention here."
There's 20 years on that chart vs 37 not on it.
Also that's "account balance" rather than "the most Reward checks" which I take to mean "the most [number of] reward checks" -- there's probably a correlation, yes, but [0] shows a variety of ways where check values are non-constant.
There is only one person that can rule that out, but since this is their statement on the subject I would take it as authoritative unless there is a better source.
You probably have a substantial subset of the people on that list on HN, so it might be possible to recover a chunk of the 'paper era'.
(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
> "These account balances reflect only the rewards for errors reported since the beginning of 2006. Many reward checks were issued during 1968--2005, too numerous to mention here."
There's 20 years on that chart vs 37 not on it.
Also that's "account balance" rather than "the most Reward checks" which I take to mean "the most [number of] reward checks" -- there's probably a correlation, yes, but [0] shows a variety of ways where check values are non-constant.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check#Reward_amou...
You probably have a substantial subset of the people on that list on HN, so it might be possible to recover a chunk of the 'paper era'.
My guess for the top slot off the top of my head was actually #4.