So mail the algorithm / formula to myself and then I can feel safe releasing it to the public?
So mail the algorithm / formula to myself and then I can feel safe releasing it to the public?
yep.
This is a very interesting topic, well it's stimulated my imagination anyway. I've been having a play and have come up with a recursive mathematical function, which can return the reversed version of an integer, there's just one thing still missing, which I'm working on (it's related to finding the fourier series of a particular step function). I'll report any progress back here.
I have managed to create a sort of prototype recursive function, which only seems to work for n smaller than about 500. I'm working on improving this, hopefully introducing an infinite series I'm working on to replace f in the below definition. Anyway, I've attached the function, p so far, as an image for ease of viewing.
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You can get credit for an original formula if you have discovered one. However you cannot patent a formula. Thats like saying "I made it, so I can use it, and if anyone else wants to then you have to pay me." it wouldn't work(Imagine Newton copyrighting physics equations). However, there have been issues with algorithms such as MP3. Fraunhofer got all ........ed at people who made MP3 encoders/decoders and sold them, so now any company which sells them is supposed to be paying Fraunhofer some sort of royalty... which I think is just stupid. I dont think people should be allowed to copyright algorithms, cause eventually we'll get people copyrighting absoluetly everything to the point where if you want to use XOR encryption then you have to get the rights for it. Anyways, thats just what I think, but there are complexity issues to having to copyright an algorithm. For example the Rijndael algorithm is copyrighted but I dont think that you are legally allowed to copyright the mathematics of the algorithms, but more-so the 5000+ keys that are used during encryption, and things like that which dont stand a chance of being reproduced even by accident.
Check this site out:
www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm
This site will answer your formula can be patented or not. I agree with what Xei said. you could copyright something.
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... what if the man who discovered fire said "ima patent this!"
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Then he's also invented a time machine, since patents weren't really around then...
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Also, you can't patent "discoveries"
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>Fraunhofer got all ........ed at people who made MP3
>encoders/decoders and sold them, so now any company which
>sells them is supposed to be paying Fraunhofer some sort of
>royalty... which I think is just stupid.
Patents are a big part of the income of a company, if it has patents. I read that companies like IBM and Philips, having lots of patents, get a lot of money from it. They use it to keep people working and to keep their company alive and in front of technology field. Patents and the money they from it stimulate them to invent new things. So in that way I do not completely disagree with patents.
I heard that at around 1900, a guy from the patents office said that there was nothing left to be invented
Do you think the guy who invented that patent...patented it?
Yes.
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I think so also.
