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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by analog31 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:48PM (#13982619)
When I worked at the public library as a teenager, I proposed a "hundred dollar bill contest," where we would announce that there was a hundred dollar bill in one of the books. The head librarian got a horrified expression when she realized what I was proposing, and threatened to fire me on the spot.

So I wouldn't mess around with God. ;-)

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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by FabHK on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:28PM (#14035173)
I seem to recall that this has been tried and then hordes of people stormed the library, went furiously through the books and basically threw them on the ground, making a huge mess until the bill was found. Not exactly what the librarians had in mind.
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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by cevi on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:37PM (#13983173)
Maybe this explains the time I found a $20 bill in a rather obscure library book.
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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by jackvalentine on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:12AM (#13984512)
The university library I worked in as an undergraduate had a $100 note inside a hard copy of someone's PhD thesis, put there by the author.

It was still there when I left, four years later. The secret of its existence was amazingly well kept by the staff - and nobody read the thesis.

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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by muro on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:05AM (#13985730)
Should have used a cheque
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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by jackvalentine on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:30PM (#13992405)
Why?
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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by JorgeGT on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:38AM (#13993805)
Presumably in order to notice when/if it's cashed?
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Re:Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality by jackvalentine on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:43AM (#13994280)
I think it really takes some of the magic away for the recipient, and the wonder away from the author don't you think?

Sometimes it's nice to just put a bit of magic out in the world and let it be without running tracking on it.

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