Patenting numbers to become possible in US
Niall Douglas
s_fsfeurope2 at nedprod.com
Tue Nov 25 00:42:46 UTC 2003
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On 24 Nov 2003 at 23:41, BenoƮt Sibaud wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html
> >
> > Is this for real?
>
> I don't know, but at the digital era, every content IS a number (eg a
> CD is just a number with 650 millions of binary digits). That leads to
> many roads...
<wince> what an awful world that would be.
I'm guessing it has to do primarily with encryption and finding large
prime numbers. However, if you allow that then what's to stop newly
discovered comological constants like planck's constant or the mass
or charge of an electron (I don't mean these in particular, but
rather new ones discovered - it would have a chilling effect on
research).
Do you think it's some form of mass insanity currently going around
the US? Let's hope it isn't too contagious and someone finally tells
the emporer he's wearing no clothes.
Cheers,
Niall
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