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▲ jdw64 an hour ago

But what's the most Reward checks anyone has ever held?

▲jacquesm an hour ago | parent [-]

Top entry:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

▲zimpenfish 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Is that necessarily accurate?

> "These account balances reflect only the rewards for errors reported since the beginning of 2006. Many reward checks were issued during 1968--2005, too numerous to mention here."

There's 20 years on that chart vs 37 not on it.

Also that's "account balance" rather than "the most Reward checks" which I take to mean "the most [number of] reward checks" -- there's probably a correlation, yes, but [0] shows a variety of ways where check values are non-constant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check#Reward_amou...

▲jacquesm 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

There is only one person that can rule that out, but since this is their statement on the subject I would take it as authoritative unless there is a better source.

You probably have a substantial subset of the people on that list on HN, so it might be possible to recover a chunk of the 'paper era'.

▲dhosek 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Although that omits the paper check era.

My guess for the top slot off the top of my head was actually #4.

▲jdw64 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

thanks!