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Authored by: Wol on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
Agreed. If you couldn't otherwise make that functional object (ie a dynamically
unstable plane), then speed is a necessary part of your invention.
But that invention is still a physical object. Speed is part of the patentable
object, not patentable in its own right.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PolR on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 06:52 PM EDT |
> There is no "speed" in mathematics.
Wrong. Speed in mathematics is
called
computational complexity. Most algorithms are fast enough for small inputs
and take increasingly more time to compute as the size of the input grows. Even
adding numbers can be very slow if the numbers have a sufficiently large number
of decimals, say trillions of them. If speed is a criteria to used to tell
abstract mathematics apart from concrete procedures we get the absurd result
that adding smaller numbers is abstract and adding larger numbers is concrete. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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