an excellent article and subsequent discussion on why software is maths. The article is in prepartion for presenting to the USPTO waht constitutes an abstract idea.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100915004250723 The gist of the argument is that math is a method for processing symbols (representations of data) and the resultant is always symbols (or representations of data). This activity of processing symbols can be done simply by paper and pencil. Software does exactly the same processing of symbols, replacing paper and pencil, with a programmable machine, with the end result always being more symbols. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
