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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 03:08 AM EDT |
I think most people don't understand what mathematical formulas actually are, or
what mathematical research is actually like. You clearly do.
Indeed, the process of programming is a special case of mathematical research.
A particularly useful one -- but it isn't *applied* math, which depends on
modelling the real world. It's *pure* math -- it's the process of coming up
with algorithms, and expressing them as formulas in a mathematical code (called
a "programming language").[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 03:11 AM EDT |
The math which was being devised to describe certain real-world relationships in
the medical diagnostic imaging field -- that was pure math.
The real-world relationships -- discovering those is certainly important which
which is not math.
But those are unpatentable for a *different* reason -- because they're laws of
nature.
So you combine abstract computation with discovering laws of nature, and you've
got nothing patentable. Now, develop a new lens or camera, and you've got a
patentable machine.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 10:28 AM EDT |
There is NOTHING software can do that is
non-
mathematical.
I guess you have never programmed
anything. It is very
easy to write software to provide the wrong answer
for any
math problem. Sure there is maths involved but returning the
answer
from 1+1=? as 'The sky is falling' is
non-mathematical. Switching
on a switch is non-mathematical -
those Mar's rovers that have no electronic
connection to Earth yet are operated non-mathematically.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 01:58 PM EDT |
WRONG (but close)
Software does nothing but cause numerical results to be computed. The software
doesn't do it, the computer does.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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