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From: Jesse F. Hughes on 21 May 2010 14:37 Ronald Bruck <bruck(a)math.usc.edu> writes: > If one wishes to patent a number--some have actually done this[...] Er, can you give a few details? -- One these mornings gonna wake | Ain't nobody's doggone business how up crazy, | my baby treats me, Gonna grab my gun, kill my baby. | Nobody's business but mine. Nobody's business but mine. | -- Mississippi John Hurt
From: Ronald Bruck on 24 May 2010 18:23 In article <874oi1w180.fsf(a)phiwumbda.org>, Jesse F. Hughes <jesse(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: > Ronald Bruck <bruck(a)math.usc.edu> writes: > > > If one wishes to patent a number--some have actually done this[...] > > Er, can you give a few details? Well, there's this article: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/26/first_integer_patented/> But I note that in "other stories" cited on the same page, it is reported that a man in England ("of no stable address") was convicted of sodomy with a donkey and a horse. Oh, those English! The article is certainly tongue-in-cheek. In another article they quote (concerning a lawsuit supposedly filed against the company which patented the first integer), "The rumour, which started in the Usenet newsgroup sci.math.research but rapidly spread to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, states that the 'Wron number and two other 'large' integers together ganged up on an unwilling smaller (but technically oversize) integer and forced it to indulged in a Fermatic practices with them". I doubt that the US patent office would allow such patents. But then, I doubted that they would permit patents of parts of the human genome. My, but we live in interesting times. -- Ron Bruck
From: cbrown on 27 May 2010 23:53
On May 21, 11:37 am, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: > Ronald Bruck <br...(a)math.usc.edu> writes: > > If one wishes to patent a number--some have actually done this[...] > > Er, can you give a few details? Perhaps something like this fits the bill... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime Cheers - Chas |