Editing Donald Knuth (section)

===Early life===
Donald Knuth was born in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning.<ref name="MacTutor">{{MacTutor |id=Knuth |date=October 2015 |access-date=2021-07-02}}</ref> He describes his heritage as "Midwestern Lutheran German".{{r|Feigenbaum 2007|p=66}} His father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping.<ref name="Raskin2013">{{cite book |author=Molly Knight Raskin |title=No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin--the Genius who Transformed the Internet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi79AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA61 |year=2013 |publisher=Da Capo Press, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-306-82166-0 |pages=61–62}}</ref> While a student at [[Milwaukee Lutheran High School]], Knuth thought of ingenious ways to solve problems. For example, in eighth grade, he entered a contest to find the number of words that the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar" could be rearranged to create; the judges had identified 2,500 such words. With time gained away from school due to a fake stomachache, Knuth used an unabridged dictionary and determined whether each dictionary entry could be formed using the letters in the phrase. He identified over 4,500 words, winning the contest.<ref name="Feigenbaum 2007">{{cite web |last1=Feigenbaum |first1=Edward|author-link1=Edward Feigenbaum |title=Oral History of Donald Knuth |url=https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Knuth_Don_1/Knuth_Don.oral_history.2007.102658053_all.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209120854/http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Knuth_Don_1/Knuth_Don.oral_history.2007.102658053_all.pdf |archive-date=2008-12-09 |url-status=live |website=Computer History Museum |access-date=17 September 2020 |date=2007}}</ref>{{rp|3}} As prizes, the school received a new television and enough candy bars for all of his schoolmates to eat.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1998 |title=Out of their minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists |first1=Dennis Elliott |last1=Shasha |first2=Cathy A |last2=Lazere |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-387-98269-4 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0tDZX3z-8UC&pg=PA90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | year=2011 | title=Selected Papers on Fun and Games | first1=Donald | last1=Knuth | publisher=Center for the Study of Language and Information—CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 192 | page=400 | isbn=978-1-57586-584-3}}</ref>