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Comment by janvdberg | original | Knuth reward check
[−]janvdberg · 2026-10-10 Sat 16:24 UTC · link
Awesome! I know the feeling, I have two myself. https://x.com/loginn/status/1367475093719416833

(Hmm maybe I should also write a blogpost about this)

[−]utopcell · 2026-10-10 Sat 17:19 UTC · link
I bet the mailing cost was more than 0x$2.00 for Knuth.
[−]jll29 · 2026-10-10 Sat 17:58 UTC · link
I also got one for catching DEK out for claiming "Alan Turing broke the Enigma".

That claim goes to the Polish cryptoanalyst Marian Rejewski instead, of course (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski); what Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers did was automate the breaking, which was important because it had to be done again every day (due to the many combinations of configurations of the Enigma).

[−]bboreham · 2026-10-11 Sun 05:21 UTC · link
Tommy Flowers is known for Colossus which broke a different code, Lorenz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe cites Turing, Welchman and Rejewski.