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Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by nsomaru on Saturday May 18, 2019 @02:13PM (#19948837)
Slightly OT, but this whole article is about nitpicks so I don’t feel guilty...

Shouldn’t the dollar sign be before the 0x?

Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by manningthegoose on Saturday May 18, 2019 @02:21PM (#19948886)
Not really, since a “hexadecimal dollar” is really just a fictional measurement of money that Knuth has created (which he designates with symbol 0x$). I guess if it were $0x3.00, you could interpret the quantity to be regular dollars in hex form, which would just evaluate to 3, instead of the 7.68 Knuth is actually offering
Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by so33 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:47PM (#19949361)
The check is issued by the “Bank of San Serriffe” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe). Perhaps they have different typographical conventions...
Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by userbinator on Saturday May 18, 2019 @02:16PM (#19948853)
That's apparently how Knuth writes it, so feel free to ask him. Maybe you'll get a reward too? ;-)
Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by LodeOfCode on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:32PM (#19949276)
0x$ = 0x100¢ = 2.56$?