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Article #4179Re: Donald Knuth
From: es... Elliott S. Frank
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 20:07
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 20:07
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In article <74...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:
>
>Trivia Question: Give the title, date, and journal name of Don Knuth's
>first publication.
>
Easy. _The Potrezebie System of Weights and Measures_, MAD Magazine 33
(June 1957) pp. 36-37 (Illustrated by Wallace Wood). Reprinted in
_Like, MAD_ New York: Signet Packet Books No. S1838, 1960), pp. 139-145.
Yeah, I know, someone (identifier lost in the shifting bits of time)
posted it to the net some time back, and I saved it.
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