On 11/12/09 9:32 AM, "Leslie Turriff" <[email protected]> wrote:
-jc-
> Or, conversely, taking the pessimistic case:
>
> 1. All software ultimately is a set of mathematical expressions.
> 2. All software is patentable (per present thinking).
> 3. Therefore, all mathematical expressions are patentable.
Although by Goedel's Law, for any logical expression set T there is a item
not(T) which is not part of the set, thus for the set of all mathematical
expressions, there exists some expression which is not patentable.
God. I'm going to have topological nightmares again. Is it Friday yet?
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