MAD even had an impact on Donald Knuth; his first publication was in fact "The potrzebie system of weights and measures" in 1957, defining the basic unit, the potrzebie, to be exactly the thickness of MAD 26 (2.263348517438173216473 mm) published in MAD 33. [1] [2]

[1] http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind/knuth.html [2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...