Today there is a thread on Slashdot regarding Donald Knuths “Earthshaking announcement” that he will issue on the TUG 2010 (TeX Users Groups) today. It will be on the 32th birthday of TeX (the superior typesetting software written by Knuth).

Update: Knuths’ announcement was a joke. The new version of TeX will be called iTex and it will include 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound, and arbitrarily large or small units & irrational numbers.

The commenters are speculating on what the announcement could be. Some believe Knuth may have proven P != NP. One commenter claims that it is not very likely given the age of Knuth and the fact that many great minds peak at their early twenties. Check these two comments… I had a laugh.

Hahahaha… here’s another funny comment (at another forum) heckling the impatient people…

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