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How would one calculate the $$$ value of exp2 multiplication? Eg if one finds a way, would it be worth keeping it a secret and creating a business around it?
by dewiz 6y ago
How would one calculate the $$$ value of exp2 multiplication? Eg if one finds a way, would it be worth keeping it a secret and creating a business around it?
- hypersoar 6y agoFirst of all, you couldn't. The "fastest" multiplication algorithms for Matrix multiplication, which are roughly O(n^2.3), aren't used in practice. They're "galactic algorithms" (a term I just now learned), meaning that the size the problem would need to be for them to overtake the more common O(n^2.8) algorithm is too large for today's computers. O(n^2) might be theoretically valuable but practically useless. Second of all, algorithms aren't patentable. The only way to keep it exclusive would be to keep it secret. I can't think of any examples of a private company making a major scientific or mathematical breakthrough and then keeping it secret long enough to profit off of it.
- desertrider12 6y ago> algorithms aren't patentable I wish. The RSA cryptosystem was patented and under license until 2000 in the US, even though the math wasn't secret.
- ben509 6y ago> Second of all, algorithms aren't patentable. Algorithms absolutely are patentable because they are computing "machines." It's mathematical equations that aren't patentable, because they're closer to laws of nature.