Donald Knuth, an A.M Turing awardee and one of the most respected computer scientists, recognized for his seminal work - The Art of Computer Programming, has a lighter side to his esteemed image. Don gives away as a reward, to those who find mistakes in his works, 256 pennies. While you are wondering what the significance of that odd looking number really is, the geeky souls would be happy to prompt that it makes a hexadecimal dollar!
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