Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android

Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by vvnraman on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:15PM (#2998508)

1023 = 2^10 - 1. It would have taken all the 10 fingers.

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by notatoad on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:55PM (#2998600)

1023=2^10, 0-indexed.

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by gregable on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:30PM (#2998796)

Even 0 indexed, 2^10 patents is still 1024 patents.

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by angus77 on Thursday September 15, 2011 @12:46AM (#2998945)

You missed their secret weapon, the zeroth patent.

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by barista on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @10:10PM (#2998638)

but in this case thre is no patent at index 0 (or some other). Don't know if this was a subtle choice

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Re:Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android by zxw on Thursday September 15, 2011 @06:46AM (#2999665)

1023 = 0b1111111111

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