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A comment on Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer numbers. Parent comment

Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by derekp7 on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:16PM (#9488381)
Because it is patenting math. Which is a law of nature, which gets discovered. And the patent statute says that laws of nature (such as E=MC^2) can't be patented.
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Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by venomsnake on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:43PM (#9488568)
He is patenting logical gate scheme that can produce average of two int in a single instruction. You can average two ints any way you want and not owe royalties ...
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