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Why software is more than math.

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 12:01 PM EDT

Do you know you just explained why software is math?

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Why software is more than math.

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT

Do you know you just explained why software is math?

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But software is pure math -- no model.

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:36 PM EDT

If you want to patent the thing modelled by the math, fine... but software isn't
model "for" anything. It's abstract computations.

The patentable parts are in the hardware, the screen, keyboard, mouse, CPU,
etc...

Patenting software is an attempt to patent the *modelling method*. It's like
patenting the Leibniz notation for differential equations.

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But software is pure math -- no model. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 04:29 AM EDT
But software is pure math -- no model. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 09:43 AM EDT
- But software is pure math -- no model. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 08:39 AM EDT

Without a mathematician, engineer or scientist

Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT

You left out what these three things are:

Objects that provide a computation...

In other words, a processor.

Without something to process the mathematics, software is void of functionality.

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Without a mathematician, engineer or scientist - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 09:40 AM EDT

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