[OT] Knuth's rewards

[Jacek Generowicz]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart at free.fr> writes:

> * Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> in comp.lang.python:
> > > Could you afford to pay $327.68 for every bug found in your glorious
> > > software?
> > Anyone know how Knuth arrives at the amounts he offers ?
> > (He also offers $2.56 for errors in his books.)
> 
> Python 2.3.2 (#2, Oct  6 2003, 08:02:06)
> [GCC 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> 327.68/2.56
> 128.0

Funny, 32768 and 256 are numbers which ring very loud bells with me
... but inserting a "." in the middle completely suppressed this
otherwise immediate reaction.

OK, so they are powers of 2, in cents ... anyone know any further
motivation ?