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Software is math. Not "does" math, but "is" math. See Google and HNsearch for references to the endless discussions of this fact. The laws of physics for macro
by tbrownaw 12y ago
Software is math. Not "does" math, but "is" math. See Google and HNsearch for references to the endless discussions of this fact.
The laws of physics for macroscopic scales are very well understood. You car is as much "math" as any reasonably complex end-user software package is.
- nitrogen 12y agoIf you want to go down that route, then I would agree with the final conclusion that nothing should be patentable that can be described in any way using known physics and chemistry. But I think it will be necessary to draw a distinction between mathematical descriptions of physical processes (which don't make the processes themselves mathematical), and mathematical implementations, namely software. In other words, math describes physics, but math is the same as software.