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The US patent system is broken anyway, so who cares? It still seems likely that they stole stuff. Google used the same quadtree numbering as Art and Com, that b

The US patent system is broken anyway, so who cares? It still seems likely that they stole stuff. Google used the same quadtree numbering as Art and Com, that being a coincidence is very unlikely

q-big 5y ago
> It still seems likely that they stole stuff. (Illegal) Copying is not theft > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
- kohlerm 5y ago
  In practice they stole the opportunity to make money with what the ART and COM guys had done.
  - csours 5y ago
    Which is called competition in the business world, and is generally allowed unless some specific law is broken.
munchler 5y ago
It's not unlikely at all. We're talking about numbering four tiles in a square, right? There are only two natural ways to do it for anyone who writes in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom language: 1 2 3 4 Or (less likely): 1 3 2 4 In binary, note that both of these patterns naturally assign one bit to left-right, and the other to up-down, which is a very desirable outcome. E.g.: 00 01 (0x row) 10 11 (1x row) (x0 (x1 col) col)