That’s all true for chemistry and physics too, once there’s an understanding of the princples. Yet new chemical compounds are patentable. And software is hardl

That’s all true for chemistry and physics too, once there’s an understanding of the princples. Yet new chemical compounds are patentable. And software is hardly pure numbers and logic. Many aspects of algorithms (and patents) are related to real world elements of the _machine_ executing instructions. The concept of a “space-efficient” algorithm is only meaningful because space has a real world cost and imposes constraints. There are no implications for space in pure “numbers and logic”.