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Today is Donald Ervin Knuth's 2·5·7th birthday.

EXERCISES

1. [70] Have a life at least 1/70 as productive as Knuth's.

On 2009-01-22 at 18:02:37, Peter Mash said:

I never knew the man had had a pipe organ built in his home (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html). How on earth the the first published references to this instrument were in '..the index to Volume 3 of The Art of Computer Programming (1973), under the entry ''Royalties, use of'' ' is a complete mystery. I wonder if he ever has time to play it.

On 2009-01-22 at 21:06:09, g said:

What, never? I mentioned it to you when I was over in Colorado last year. I think he does have time to play it; certainly he sometimes plays at his church. I have the impression that he's extraordinarily disciplined in his use of time: a common characteristic of very successful people, it seems. Alas. :-)

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